Re: Pooling of strings is good

[Coroutines <coroutines@...>]

On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 7:52 AM, Coda Highland <chighland@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 7:28 AM, Coroutines <coroutines@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Honestly, most of these replies sound like "never use goto!"
>
> Ironic that you'd use this example considering this is exactly the
> thing that caused Apple's SSL bug.

Well I'm getting nothing out of this discussion now... there's
generalization and then there's common sense.  Do what the situation
requires :\

I don't think you're saying "never use goto" but if you are we've come
full circle.  I'm outtie.

>> Well I'm not writing crypto, guess I can pretend everything is safe.
>
> C'mon, you should know that the inverse ("a => b" to "!a => !b") of a
> true statement isn't logically assured to be true; it's the
> contrapositive ("a => b" to "!b => !a"; in this case, "if it's not
> safe, don't use it when writing crypto") that's logically guaranteed.

I do know this.