Quotes of the week [LWN.net]

And naming matters: a good name is both descriptive and short, as we know it from the excellent examples of 'Linux' and 'Git'. Oh wait ...

Why not go the full monty and call it strtrtsstrrrtst(), with strtrtssstrrtst() doing almost, but not quite the same thing?

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Posted Jun 12, 2015 2:13 UTC (Fri) by jzbiciak (guest, #5246) [Link] (4 responses)

"How about the strstrstrncpystr? There isn't much str in that!"

Posted Jun 12, 2015 14:21 UTC (Fri) by rriggs (guest, #11598) [Link] (3 responses)

This is Linux development. Python development is just down the hall.

Posted Jun 12, 2015 23:43 UTC (Fri) by neilbrown (subscriber, #359) [Link] (2 responses)

Come now, let's not start an argument ... they cost extra.

Posted Jun 13, 2015 0:27 UTC (Sat) by jzbiciak (guest, #5246) [Link] (1 responses)

"But that's not a reference! It's a value argument!"

"Is not!"

"Is so!"

Posted Jun 15, 2015 8:16 UTC (Mon) by dgm (subscriber, #49227) [Link]

Look, mate. I know a dangling reference when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.

Posted Jun 18, 2015 14:59 UTC (Thu) by ksandstr (guest, #60862) [Link]

Paraphrasing, "those who are ignorant of wcsnrtombs(3) are doomed to find out".