Re: [Patch] String and (repost) MemLeak
From:
matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date:
2003-03-04 09:27:16 UTC
List:
ruby-core #912
Hi,
In message "Re: [Patch] String and (repost) MemLeak"
on 03/03/04, Michal Rokos <michal@rokos.homeip.net> writes:
|> I consider (or designed) str_new(0, len) as allocation of string
|> buffer, so that I think garbage is OK, just like malloc().
|
|You're probably right - if programmer wants garbage he gets it... But I
|still think that setting proper len cost nothing and could make some
|tired programmers happier.
Cost is nothing, I agree. But if a programmer gets a zero length
string even when I specified len to str_new(), he/she may confuse
sometimes.
matz.