Hi Doug! Thanks for having a look at it! On 12/14/22 17:22, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
a sequence of zero or more non-null characters followed by a null byteVarying terminology (character vs byte) is poor style in technical writing.
I thought of using null character, but it was longer, and I prefer shorter terms.About using byte for everything... it feels a bit wrong especially when I'm trying to make a clear distinction between strings and character sequences that don't have a terminating NUL.
And, since the two are distinct things that should not be mixed (as far as strings are concerned), it doesn't feel so bad using different terms for them.
concatenateWe began fighting this pomposity before v7. There has only been backsliding since.. "Catenate" is crisper, means the same thing, and concurs with the "cat" command. I invite you to join the battle for simplicity.
Heh, I didn't know the word existed. In Spanish we only have "concatenar". I'll happily join this battle for simplicity :)
chain copyThis term is never overtly defined. The definition might be inferred from, "To chain copy functions, they need to return a pointer to the end", but the problematic grammar of the sentence diverts attention from its content.
Okay, I'll try to improve the wording in that paragraph; indeed that subsection intended to define the "chain copy" term.
strscpyDoesn't it muddy the waters to include a non-library function in man3?
Initially I wanted to discuss it because it always comes up in discussions about better string-copying functions.
But since I don't provide an implementation for it (since it's hard to get right) (as opposed to the other functions that are not in libraries, for which I show trivial implementations), and don't see it very useful, I can remove it. Less lines wasted with it.
Maybe I'll keep a small mention to it.
Doug
Cheers, Alex
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