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Author	christian.heimes
Recipients	alexandre.vassalotti, brett.cannon, christian.heimes, gvanrossum
Date	2007-10-26.00:30:36
SpamBayes Score	0.0022492963
Marked as misclassified	No
Message-id	<47213527.1070201@cheimes.de>
In-reply-to	<1193357969.06.0.923641373901.issue1302@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>

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Alexandre Vassalotti wrote: > It the address of lower[18] to be exact. (l < &lower[(sizeof lower) - > 2]) is simply tricky notation to check the bound of the array. > Personally, I used like to subtract pointer, ((lower - l + 1) < (sizeof > lower)) to get the bound. But now, I find Guido's trick more cute (and > less error-prone). :) Wow, that's a cool trick. The old wizard has still some astonishing tricks in the sleeves of his robe. :]

Alexandre Vassalotti wrote:
> It the address of lower[18] to be exact. (l < &lower[(sizeof lower) -
> 2]) is simply tricky notation to check the bound of the array.
> Personally, I used like to subtract pointer, ((lower - l + 1) < (sizeof
> lower)) to get the bound. But now, I find Guido's trick more cute (and
> less error-prone). :)

Wow, that's a cool trick. The old wizard has still some astonishing
tricks in the sleeves of his robe. :]

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2007-10-26 00:30:36	christian.heimes	set	spambayes_score: 0.0022493 -> 0.0022492963 recipients: + christian.heimes, gvanrossum, brett.cannon, alexandre.vassalotti
2007-10-26 00:30:36	christian.heimes	link	issue1302 messages
2007-10-26 00:30:36	christian.heimes	create