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There's still a point, in terms of readability and consistency. Certainly there doesn't seem to be a downside aside from a few extra characters.

_RPM 11y ago
Redundant != consistent. But I agree with you, there isn't really a downside. I'm being pedantic here. -pedantic
- spash 11y ago
  > I'm being pedantic here. Please be. Seemingly random bits of (honestly - actually very useful) information like yours are why I'm reading HN in the first place instead of, say, random Youtube comments. Someone may argue about this being overly pedantic, or about such comment being more suitable for sites like Stack Overflow, or about the whole thing being completely clear from the standards documentation itself... etc. But that's really not the point of it when this isn't the kind of thing you would be even intentionally looking at, or for, in the first place. Every time I open a HN thread, I can be sure that I will find at least a good few nice and memorable comments that seemingly don't add anything revolutionary to the topic at hand, but instead will make you pause, slap your forehead and exclaim "holy moly, that's in essence actually perfectly obvious, yet somehow I never even thought about it from this point of view before!" Which in turn suddenly makes you realize something completely unrelated in your own world, yet affected or plagued by a similar type of issue, that would otherwise end up completely unnoticed if not for your comment. In short, one man's pedantic can still be other man's sudden epiphany.
- Doches 11y ago
  This sort of pedantry is exactly why I submitted this library to Show HN in the first place -- I'm not a C programmer by any particular training other than self-taught, and I've never worked at such a low level in industry. Knowing that C programmers consider something like sizeof(char) to be distractingly weird (where I would just consider it consistent/defensive) is good to know!

_RPM 11y ago

Redundant != consistent. But I agree with you, there isn't really a downside. I'm being pedantic here. -pedantic

spash 11y ago
> I'm being pedantic here. Please be. Seemingly random bits of (honestly - actually very useful) information like yours are why I'm reading HN in the first place instead of, say, random Youtube comments. Someone may argue about this being overly pedantic, or about such comment being more suitable for sites like Stack Overflow, or about the whole thing being completely clear from the standards documentation itself... etc. But that's really not the point of it when this isn't the kind of thing you would be even intentionally looking at, or for, in the first place. Every time I open a HN thread, I can be sure that I will find at least a good few nice and memorable comments that seemingly don't add anything revolutionary to the topic at hand, but instead will make you pause, slap your forehead and exclaim "holy moly, that's in essence actually perfectly obvious, yet somehow I never even thought about it from this point of view before!" Which in turn suddenly makes you realize something completely unrelated in your own world, yet affected or plagued by a similar type of issue, that would otherwise end up completely unnoticed if not for your comment. In short, one man's pedantic can still be other man's sudden epiphany.
Doches 11y ago
This sort of pedantry is exactly why I submitted this library to Show HN in the first place -- I'm not a C programmer by any particular training other than self-taught, and I've never worked at such a low level in industry. Knowing that C programmers consider something like sizeof(char) to be distractingly weird (where I would just consider it consistent/defensive) is good to know!