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From: tad@killer.UUCP (Tad Marko)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: C Coding Question
Message-ID: <248@killer.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 9-Aug-86 17:39:27 EDT
Article-I.D.: killer.248
Posted: Sat Aug  9 17:39:27 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 11-Aug-86 02:26:03 EDT
Organization: The Unix(tm) Connection BBS, Dallas, Tx
Lines: 45
Keywords: Attention all nit-pickers...

[line eater fodder]

Hey, everybody, I discovered a "new" (new to me) way of coding such static
things as descriptions, helps, and the like.  It goes like this:

#include <stdio.h>

char *help[] = {
	"You do it this way, dummy:",
	"",
	"so on and so forth...",
	NULL
	};

char *description[] = {
	"I do this...",
	"no much of anything...",
	NULL
	};

main()
{
	say(help);
	printf("\n");
	say(description);
}

say(dp)
char *dp[];
{
	while (*dp != NULL)
		printf("%s\n", *dp++);
}

Here's the question:  Should help and description be declared char *help[]
or char **help?  Should say() be declared void, or is there some sort of 
error checking I should implement?  Are there any other suggestions or
comments?  How about any other neat "tricks" anyone has discovered lately?

						Tad
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