[#4479] Requesting addition to IRB (configurable standard output) — Sascha Ebach <se@...>

Hello,

13 messages 2005/02/24
[#4482] Re: Requesting addition to IRB (configurable standard output) — Sam Roberts <sroberts@...> 2005/02/25

Quoting se@digitale-wertschoepfung.de, on Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 01:22:34AM +0900:

[#4483] Re: Requesting addition to IRB (configurable standard output) — Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net> 2005/02/25

On 24 Feb 2005, at 19:51, Sam Roberts wrote:

[#4488] Re: Requesting addition to IRB (configurable standard output) — Sam Roberts <sroberts@...> 2005/02/26

Quoting drbrain@segment7.net, on Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 02:43:31AM +0900:

[#4489] Re: Requesting addition to IRB (configurable standard output) — Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net> 2005/02/26

On 25 Feb 2005, at 16:03, Sam Roberts wrote:

Re: Strange argc check in stable snapshot

From: "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2005-02-23 16:04:25 UTC
List: ruby-core #4468
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Jenkins [mailto:steven.jenkins@ieee.org] 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 12:53 AM
> To: ruby-core@ruby-lang.org
> Subject: Re: Strange argc check in stable snapshot
> 
> 
> Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> > In message "Re: Strange argc check in stable snapshot"
> >     on Wed, 23 Feb 2005 05:58:46 +0900, "Berger, Daniel" 
> > <Daniel.Berger@qwest.com> writes:
> > 
> > |I'm just curious why this type of thing has appeared in the latest 
> > |stable snapshot in array.c:
> > 
> > Right.  It is unnecessary check.  Thank you.
> 
> Maybe a good idea nonetheless. It might catch a bug someday. Nothing 
> *guarantees* that argc is nonnegative, not even for main().
> 
> Steve

I'll pledge $100 to RubyCentral immediately if someone can actually
demonstrate how this might occur.

And no, assigning a negative value to argc directly doesn't count. :-P

Regards,

Dan


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