RE: Best use of Lists?

[Richard Burmeister]

> From: Todd Cary
>
> Richard -
>
> <<<
> itemList[year] = (char *) MemPtrNew(6);  // just enough for a year
> string
> >>>
>
> Why are 6 bytes reserved?  4 for the date (e.g. 2001) and 1 for the
> terminating "0".
>

That's David Fedor's code.  Maybe you should ask him!  (Perhaps he's
planning for the year 10000 or for the year -1000?)


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