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From: hls@rwthbs.UUCP (H.L. Stahl)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: swap(x,y)
Message-ID: <604@rwthbs.UUCP>
Date: 12 Sep 89 11:22:27 GMT
References: <MYwDEFy00WB842JEUx@andrew.cmu.edu> <8350@boring.cwi.nl> <14479@haddock.ima.isc.com> <1545@l.cc.purdue.edu> <10897@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: hls@rwthbs.UUCP (H.L. Stahl)
Organization: RWTH Aachen, Lehrstuhl f. Betriebssysteme
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In article <10897@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>In article <1545@l.cc.purdue.edu> cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
> ...
>
>>This is another example of keeping the tools from the programmer.
>
>No, this is another example of not knowing how to use the tools that are
>already provided.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ VERY TRUE!

And by the way: why do you need an operator for swapping?

if it is for int, float, ..., it is quite simple; if it is for any structure,
you should better use pointers instead, which is faster.


Hans-Ludwig Stahl, Lehrstuhl fuer Betriebssysteme, RWTH Aachen
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