🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <13858@cbmvax.commodore.com> valentin@cbmvax (Valentin Pepelea) writes:
> Asking Amiga programmers to immediately stop putting data in code hunks is like
> asking Unix programmers to always free all their memory before exiting a
> program.

What's wrong with that? *I* always free all my memory before exiting a
program (well, I leave it up to "exit()" to free memory that stdio has
allocated) simply because I write re-usable routines: I expect that they
may be used in a program that *doesn't* exit on an error. Say, an interactive
one.

What gets *MY* goat are the folks writing code for BSD that refuse to
check the return status of malloc() because "with VM, it never fails".
Crap.

> Now guys, don't try to convice me otherwise because I already agree with you.
> It's just that I can't do anything about it.

If *I* can do something about it, simply by doing the right thing, why can't
you?
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
<peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.