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From: mattack@eskimo.com (Matt Ackeret)
Subject: Re: Inform: bug in a box? (patch)
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References: <19951118.135806.60@arnod.arnod.demon.co.uk> <19951126.163310.79@arnod.arnod.demon.co.uk> <49g3vm$cmp@eve.speakeasy.org> <49g5o3$gfs@eve.speakeasy.org>
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 19:55:25 GMT
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In article <49g5o3$gfs@eve.speakeasy.org>,
What Illuminatus? <hades@speakeasy.org> wrote:
>Of course, as soon as I sent the last message I realized that literals can be
>@@?, @@??, and @@???, which totally screws up my patch.
>
>So... you have a couple choices. 
>
>1) Change this:

>>                   k++; k++;

Is there really code that does this?  Can you say "k+=2;"?
>>                   i = i - 3;
>   to this:
>>                   k++; k++; k++;

k+=3;

Sorry for such stupid nitpicking, but if this is in some way heavily travelled
loop, things like this can be significant.

Sounds like formal code review time.  Just kidding.
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