At 02:48 PM 9/21/2001 -0400, Michael Maraist wrote:
>Question. It seems to me that the current do-loop:
> while(code > x && code < y && *code) { DO_OP }
>
>Is fail-fast and succeed-slow. I know it has a brother:
> "while(*code)", but this could lead to seg-faults, especially if we allow
>dynamically modified parsers / compilers.
I agree on both counts. They're both first-cut approximations of correct.
They need an overhaul, and we ought to put a bug report in for 'em so we
don't forget.
Dan
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