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Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 21:12:05 GMT
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On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 18:36:20 GMT, ChuckEasttom
<chuckeasttom AT my-deja DOT com> wrote:

>In article <39EB4271 DOT 85CE6874 AT antlimited DOT com>,
>  Richard Heathfield <richard AT antlimited DOT com> wrote:
>> I am also acutely aware that the book has errors. It is therefore
>> incumbent upon me to publish those errors as and when they are
>> discovered (and, in fact, I have a small backlog of errors which
>> I have not yet published - remind me to do it this weekend,
>> would you? ;-) ).

You can get reminders delivered to your email box through
  http://www.lifeminders.com/

>Oh I will undoubtably be scouring your book for errors:)
>
>But my point is this: Your book has some errors, Schildts book has some
>errors... I have a little epublished VB book that I am currently
>revising because of...yep errors.  But your statements seem to indicate
>that if his books have any errors, then they cannot be trusted.

Not necessarily.  As has been pointed out in this thread, you two
revise your publications regularly to fix bugs, whereas Schildt
refuses to even acknowledge his errors.

>> I might mention that good indentation can make a program easier to
>> read. That's a matter of opinion. But when someone says (for example)
>> that you can clear the input buffer using fflush(stdin) and still
>> have a valid C program

For the record, what's the "right" way to clear an input buffer?

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