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From: ok@quintus.uucp (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: hardcoded constants
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Date: 17 Dec 88 00:46:29 GMT
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henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>-	foo = malloc(strlen(a)+strlen(b)+2);	/* 2 for '/' '\0' */
>-Now, what's a good name for that "2", and how does naming it improve
>-readability?

I recently had a very similar problem.  A *superb* "name" for that 2 is
		sizeof "/"