In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 10/24/2006
at 02:05 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Truly a gratuitous check.
No. Read the code.
>Is there any rationale for permitting three leading zeroes, but not
>four as long as the resulting numeric value is within range?
Avoiding extraneous code changes.
>It merely adds a few instructions to some code path
No it doesn't. The code is generic, and adding a special test would
increase the path length.
Now, I could make a case that the converter (née Reader) tables should
have specified a larger limit, since excessive values would get caught
in the Interpreter, but that's a separate issue.
--
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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