Re: Pooling of strings is good

[Coda Highland <chighland@...>]

On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Roberto Ierusalimschy
<roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> 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.
>
> Come on, be fair. It was not the use of goto that *caused* the bug. They
> could produce exactly the same kind of dirty code with break or return.
>
> "Do not look for other causes to explain things that can be explained by
> pure incompetence" :)
>
> -- Roberto
>

Oh, granted, granted, as I had mentioned in a previous post, the
actual failing was copy-paste coding. But yes, you're right :)

(Which is of course still relevant to the suggestion in this thread to
duplicate the string library...)

/s/ Adam