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Subject: Re: Please add strrev proposal
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 00:32:11 -0400
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What ever happened to the earlier comment...

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anyway, i think this is going to be my last post on the topic.

sinan.
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On 29 Sep 2001 01:00:32 GMT, "A. Sinan Unur" <asu1 AT cornell DOT edu> wrote:

>CBFalconer <cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com> wrote in
>news:3BB50884 DOT 347A4384 AT yahoo DOT com: 
>
>> Thank you.  I knew there was a reason I made my equivalent
>> (revstring) a void function.  I just didn't know what it was :-)
>
>The usefulness of a strrev function depends very much on what you intend to 
>use it for. For example, if your program is looking for palindromes, you 
>might want to use something like:
>
>strcmp(word, strrev(word));
>
>i which case the in-place nature of the proposed function is really not 
>helpful. on the other hand, if one wants to use strrev this way, there are 
>other issues such as: where did the string returned by strrev come from 
>(similar to strdup). if the memory was allocated dynamically, the caller 
>needs to remember to free it. can strrev return NULL? if it is allocated 
>statically, the function is not thread-safe so on and so forth.
>
>the proposed in-place strrev would address a very narrow issue, and provide 
>a solution to only a very small number of problems. hence, my belief that 
>it is better for programmers to implement their specific solution.
>
>Of course, it is only my opinion.
>
>Sinan.