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From: esker@abaa.uucp (Lawrence Esker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: guru when calling OpenDiskFont
Message-ID: <2836@abaa.UUCP>
Date: 13 Sep 89 16:58:32 GMT
References: <1319@jimi.cs.unlv.edu> <124522@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: esker@abaa.UUCP (Lawrence Esker)
Followup-To: alt.flame
Organization: Allen Bradley
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In article <124522@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes:
>>struct Library *DiskFontBase
>		^^^- Bug
>
>I've flame Commodore a bit about this on BIX, you'll probably want to
      ^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^
>now as well. Your bug is that the global that OpenDiskFont() is expecting
>the library base to be in is "DiskfontBase" and *NOT* "DiskFontBase" (note
>the lower case 'f' in 'font'). The more things like this happen, the more
>I think there must be a better way for shared libraries to work than with
>"magic" global variables.

Commodore has no responsibility for an upper/lower case bug.  What system
can you name that still uses the C language and escape bugs from upper/lower
case typo errors.  If anyone is at fault, it is K&R.

Personally, I like the case dependence of K&R and am willing to live with the
consequences of making typo mistakes.  However, lets not start a preferences
war over it here in c.s.a.t.
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