Counting occurence of character in a string

[Ben Pfaff]

A helmet doesn't protect against all types of injuries, so why use
one at all?

H*lm*ts are controversial. The above statement is a great way to
start a flame war someplace like rec.bicycles.misc.

 

[Michael Wojcik]

Writing code to check errno after the return,
isn't any simpler than checking the input for NULL
prior to the function call.

Regardless of whether errno is checked, a version which protects
against null (not "NULL") input will avoid UB. Whether it makes
things "simpler" for the caller is utterly irrelevant.

 

[Michael Wojcik]

H*lm*ts are controversial.

I am unable to find any topic of significance which is not somewhere
controversial.

The above statement is a great way to
start a flame war someplace like rec.bicycles.misc.

Since this thread is not crossposted to rec.bicycles.misc, that
hardly seems relevant.

 

[Mark McIntyre]

Since this thread is not crossposted to rec.bicycles.misc, that
hardly seems relevant.

read up on the word "analogy" in your favorite dictionary...

 

[Michael Wojcik]

read up on the word "analogy" in your favorite dictionary...

Sure. While I'm doing so, perhaps you would like to take a look at
"antirrhesis", "ignoratio elenchi", and "aschematiston".

I'm sure there's a specific rhetorical term for "treating a false
analogy as literal", but I can't think what it is at the moment.

--
Michael Wojcik (e-mail address removed)

Auden often writes like Disney. Like Disney, he knows the shape of beasts --
(& incidently he, too, might have a company of artists producing his lines) --
unlike Lawrence, he does not know what shapes or motivates these beasts.
-- Dylan Thomas