In <3ukue5d024hvsqq36tesv225fu3lr0c...@4ax.com>, on 11/02/2009
at 11:50 PM, Binyamin Dissen <bdis...@dissensoftware.com> said:
>Compatibility has its costs. This solution does not change the number of
>parameters and is completely compatible.
No; it breaks compatibility with existing code that supports more than 100
characters. It also leads to users believing that they have specified a
parameter when the program actually never sees it.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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