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barmar@nic.near.net (Barry Margolin):
> While I'm certainly not a fan of gets(), I disagree with your claim that it
> shouldn't even be used when both the writer and reader are developed in
> conjunction.  By your logic, strcpy() also should never be used, because
> someone might lengthen the source variable and forget to lengthen the

I guess you're right.  Hence, according to grand Usenet tradition,
I'll have to slightly modify my argument:

The crucial distinction between strcpy and gets is that it is _possible_
to check whether the call will succeed before it is made; with gets this
is not possible.  (Getting the check wrong is similar to getting the
length wrong for fgets.  This can't be easily fixed; anyone design a
language that makes it impossible to make errors?)

I'm not that great a fan of strcpy, although I admit I use it frequently.
But I didn't write strmaxcpy for nothing.

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