Tell HN: C Experts Panel – Ask us anything about C

Re:Tell HN: C Experts Panel – Ask us anything about C by loeg on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @12:27PM (#22867915)

Well, I am informally proposing making those standard :-).

IMO they're a lot more ergonomic than the Annex K functions, and do the thing most programmers think the strncat/strncpy functions do (admittedly, not part of ISO C).

Annex K should be forgotten as the mistake it is and we can move on with existing real-world interfaces instead of inventing features from whole-cloth. I thought that was generally the C standard operating practice.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Tell HN: C Experts Panel – Ask us anything about C by saagarjha on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @08:51PM (#22873242)

I disagree, because they return a value that nobody really wants and thus perform poorly: https://saagarjha.com/blog/2020/04/12/designing-a-better-str...

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Tell HN: C Experts Panel – Ask us anything about C by loeg on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @02:03AM (#22875024)

So standardize them as returning void — great!

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Tell HN: C Experts Panel – Ask us anything about C by saagarjha on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @05:03AM (#22875816)

What you really want is it to tell you how much it copied.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Tell HN: C Experts Panel – Ask us anything about C by loeg on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @03:11PM (#22881785)

I don't think I've ever wanted to know that, actually. Void is totally fine for my use.

[ Parent | on HN ]