The dot-star bit is bad and should be eliminated.

Bah. Thats cargo-cult if you ask me. Now if you said "dot-star on ocassion may not behave as you want it to so you should be careful using it" then I wouldn't say this. :-)

The point is that you dont have to freak out just because you see a .* around. (I wonder how many there are in the standard modules? Hmmm) Do be careful, do read Death to Dot Star! (and advise other to do so as well,) do consider alternative before using it, but dont feel that you have to eliminate .* every time you see it.


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demerphq

<Elian> And I do take a kind of perverse pleasure in having an OO assembly language...

In reply to Re: Re: appending to end of string by demerphq
in thread appending to end of string by jc23

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