Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!amsdsg!jeff
From: jeff@amsdsg.UUCP (Jeff Barr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: hardcoded constants
Summary: Hardcoded numbers
Message-ID: <180@amsdsg.UUCP>
Date: 21 Dec 88 21:47:12 GMT
References: <15852@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <883@quintus.UUCP>
Organization: AMS Departmental Systems Group, Arlington, VA
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In article <883@quintus.UUCP>, ok@quintus.uucp (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
> 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 "/"

(*superb*)?  Personally, I don't see any connection.  I'd rather use 

			(sizeof ("")) 
			
to indicate the overhead (if you will) to store a string.

							Jeff
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