Re: encapsulating directory operations

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Sujet : Re: encapsulating directory operations
De : rjh (at) *nospam* cpax.org.uk (Richard Heathfield)
Groupes : comp.lang.c
Date : 20. May 2025, 19:50:06
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Organisation : Fix this later
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On 20/05/2025 18:51, Scott Lurndal wrote:
Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> writes:
On 20/05/2025 18:14, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
On 2025-05-20, Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> wrote:
On 20/05/2025 17:19, David Brown wrote:
While there are some people who, for reasons that still escape
me, prefer C90 over C99
>
I will not fight you, David.
>
    // For some reason that escapes me, I have a crash.
>
    char *me(void)
    {
      char reason[42];
      return reason;
    }
>
Don't give up the day job, Kaz. ;-)
>
Sure, you can do stupid things in any dialect of C.
>
I think it was Doug Gwyn who said that if you set out to make it
impossible to do stupid things in C, you'll end up making it
impossible to do clever things.
 Define "clever" in this context.   Duff's Device?
:-)
I doubt very much whether that's what Doug Gwyn had in mind. He always struck me as being a very level-headed fellow. He'd have been talking about wise-clever, not smartarse-clever.
But nosing around the Web, I have discovered that he was talking not about C but about Unix. <oh well>

Most "clever" code often ends up being not very maintainable in the
long run, or sometimes is broken by a simple architectural enhancement.
Certainly true. I once wrote a stunningly clever program in a 4GL - something to be really proud of. (Okay, so I was being a smart-arse, but in a good way.)
Dan was tasked with a modification that didn't fit into my quite brilliant scheme. He had to rip it apart and start from scratch. He told me he felt like a barbarian at the gates of Rome, but the job comes first, of course,and so Rome burned. Ah well.
As for Kaz's bug, I have enough confidence in Kaz to be sure that he wouldn't be so damn stupid in real code. I don't suppose you would be either, and I'd like to think that I'm better than that too.
If we have to be hand-held through what we can and cannot do with local objects, we have no business writing production code.
--
Richard Heathfield
Email: rjh at cpax dot org dot uk
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20 May 25 * encapsulating directory operations308Paul Edwards
20 May 25 +* Re: encapsulating directory operations83Lawrence D'Oliveiro
20 May 25 i+* Re: encapsulating directory operations20Paul Edwards
21 May 25 ii`* Re: encapsulating directory operations19Lawrence D'Oliveiro
21 May 25 ii `* Re: encapsulating directory operations18Paul Edwards
21 May 25 ii  `* Re: encapsulating directory operations17Lawrence D'Oliveiro
21 May 25 ii   +* Re: encapsulating directory operations3Paul Edwards
22 May 25 ii   i`* Re: encapsulating directory operations2Lawrence D'Oliveiro
22 May 25 ii   i `- Re: encapsulating directory operations1Kaz Kylheku
22 May 25 ii   `* Re: encapsulating directory operations13James Kuyper
22 May 25 ii    `* Re: encapsulating directory operations12Lawrence D'Oliveiro
22 May 25 ii     `* Re: encapsulating directory operations11James Kuyper
22 May 25 ii      `* Re: encapsulating directory operations10Lawrence D'Oliveiro
23 May 25 ii       `* Re: encapsulating directory operations9James Kuyper
23 May 25 ii        `* Re: encapsulating directory operations8Kaz Kylheku
23 May 25 ii         +* Re: encapsulating directory operations3Paul Edwards
23 May 25 ii         i+- Re: encapsulating directory operations1Kaz Kylheku
24 May 25 ii         i`- Re: encapsulating directory operations1Lawrence D'Oliveiro
23 May 25 ii         `* Re: encapsulating directory operations4James Kuyper
23 May 25 ii          `* Re: encapsulating directory operations3Kaz Kylheku
24 May 25 ii           `* Re: encapsulating directory operations2James Kuyper
24 May 25 ii            `- Re: encapsulating directory operations1Kaz Kylheku
31 May 25 i`* Re: encapsulating directory operations62Bonita Montero
31 May 25 i `* Re: encapsulating directory operations61Lawrence D'Oliveiro
1 Jun 25 i  `* Re: encapsulating directory operations60Bonita Montero
1 Jun 25 i   `* Re: encapsulating directory operations59Lawrence D'Oliveiro
2 Jun 25 i    `* Re: encapsulating directory operations58Bonita Montero
3 Jun 25 i     +* Re: encapsulating directory operations2James Kuyper
3 Jun 25 i     i`- Re: encapsulating directory operations1Kaz Kylheku
3 Jun 25 i     +* Re: encapsulating directory operations9Lawrence D'Oliveiro
10 Jun 25 i     i`* Re: encapsulating directory operations8Bonita Montero
10 Jun 25 i     i +- Re: encapsulating directory operations1Bonita Montero
10 Jun 25 i     i +- Re: encapsulating directory operations1Kaz Kylheku
11 Jun 25 i     i `* Re: encapsulating directory operations5Lawrence D'Oliveiro
11 Jun 25 i     i  `* Re: encapsulating directory operations4Bonita Montero
11 Jun 25 i     i   +- Re: encapsulating directory operations1Lawrence D'Oliveiro
11 Jun 25 i     i   `* Re: encapsulating directory operations2Bonita Montero
12 Jun 25 i     i    `- Re: encapsulating directory operations1Lawrence D'Oliveiro
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6 Jun 25 i      `* Re: encapsulating directory operations45Bonita Montero
6 Jun 25 i       `* Re: encapsulating directory operations44Bonita Montero
6 Jun 25 i        `* Re: encapsulating directory operations43Bonita Montero
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7 Jun 25 i            `* Re: encapsulating directory operations39Bonita Montero
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7 Jun 25 i              `* Re: encapsulating directory operations37Bonita Montero
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7 Jun 25 i               i+- Re: encapsulating directory operations1Bonita Montero
8 Jun 25 i               i`* Re: encapsulating directory operations20Bonita Montero
8 Jun 25 i               i +* Re: encapsulating directory operations12Muttley
8 Jun 25 i               i i`* Re: encapsulating directory operations11Bonita Montero
8 Jun 25 i               i i `* Re: encapsulating directory operations10Muttley
8 Jun 25 i               i i  +* Re: encapsulating directory operations3Bonita Montero
9 Jun 25 i               i i  i`* Re: encapsulating directory operations2Muttley
9 Jun 25 i               i i  i `- Re: encapsulating directory operations1Bonita Montero
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10 Jun 25 i               i i  i`- Re: encapsulating directory operations1Tim Rentsch
8 Jun 25 i               i i  +- Re: encapsulating directory operations1Bonita Montero
9 Jun 25 i               i i  +- Re: encapsulating directory operations1wij
9 Jun 25 i               i i  `* Re: encapsulating directory operations2Muttley
9 Jun 25 i               i i   `- Re: encapsulating directory operations1Bonita Montero
8 Jun 25 i               i +* Re: encapsulating directory operations5wij
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8 Jun 25 i               i i `* Re: encapsulating directory operations3wij
8 Jun 25 i               i i  `* Re: encapsulating directory operations2Bonita Montero
8 Jun 25 i               i i   `- Re: encapsulating directory operations1wij
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9 Jun 25 i               i  `- Re: encapsulating directory operations1Bonita Montero
7 Jun 25 i               `* Re: encapsulating directory operations14Janis Papanagnou
8 Jun 25 i                `* Re: encapsulating directory operations13Bonita Montero
8 Jun 25 i                 +- Re: encapsulating directory operations1Chris M. Thomasson
8 Jun 25 i                 `* Re: encapsulating directory operations11Bonita Montero
9 Jun 25 i                  +* Re: encapsulating directory operations8Bonita Montero
9 Jun 25 i                  i+* Re: encapsulating directory operations6Bonita Montero
9 Jun 25 i                  ii+- Re: encapsulating directory operations1Bonita Montero
10 Jun 25 i                  ii+* Re: encapsulating directory operations3Muttley
10 Jun 25 i                  iii+- Re: encapsulating directory operations1Muttley
10 Jun 25 i                  iii`- Re: encapsulating directory operations1Chris M. Thomasson
10 Jun 25 i                  ii`- Re: encapsulating directory operations1Waldek Hebisch
9 Jun 25 i                  i`- Re: encapsulating directory operations1Richard Heathfield
10 Jun 25 i                  `* Re: encapsulating directory operations2Tim Rentsch
10 Jun 25 i                   `- Re: encapsulating directory operations1Bonita Montero
20 May 25 +* Re: encapsulating directory operations74Keith Thompson
20 May 25 i+* Re: encapsulating directory operations28Richard Heathfield
20 May 25 ii+- Re: encapsulating directory operations1Paul Edwards
20 May 25 ii+- Re: encapsulating directory operations1David Brown
20 May 25 ii+* Re: encapsulating directory operations7Kaz Kylheku
20 May 25 iii`* Re: encapsulating directory operations6Richard Heathfield
20 May 25 iii +* Re: encapsulating directory operations2Muttley
20 May 25 iii i`- Re: encapsulating directory operations1Paul Edwards
20 May 25 iii `* Re: encapsulating directory operations3Paul Edwards
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20 May 25 +* Re: encapsulating directory operations145Kaz Kylheku
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