> > Now I'll stir the other pot and say that performance isn't the
> > issue- the issue is that there's nothing that says that strings and
> > identifiers are always easier to use and/or understand than numbers.
> They are a lot more extensible, though. With strings, you generally
> have to modify and recompile only the portion of the code that
> implements new functionality. The client code doesn't have to be
> modified or even relinked.
May the strerror(3) be a good example of how to deal with numbers
AND strings?
-mi
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