Talk:Longest string challenge: Difference between revisions
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:: It's not that I particularly love gets or buffer overruns, and "faster" is totally not a concern for this task, the key issue is how easy it is to read the code. The original C code was really just demonstrating how to compare the lengths of two strings without directly measuring them, and I deliberately did not pretend it was safe code (I've ''never'' used gets before); declaring const and fgets, to me, feel like false promise of safety.
:: That said, if you can check bounds and truncation correctly without making it overly complicated, feel free: I can't think of a way to do it without integer math, like in the second solution. --[[User:Ledrug|Ledrug]] 18:27, 17 August 2011 (UTC)
::: Given that the current version does not always work, I do not see anything wrong with a replacement version which does not always work. That said, I think I prefer "exit with an error code" over "crash" for behavior in adverse conditions. But, ok, I'll try for a bounds checking version. --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] 18:32, 17 August 2011 (UTC)
== Boring solution v. restrictions ==
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