Silly newbie question - Caret character (^)

[Terry Reedy]

On 11/9/2010 7:13 PM, Seebs wrote:
> On 2010-11-09, Terry Reedy<tjreedy at udel.edu>  wrote:
>> I've been wondering why C programmers keep writing code susceptible to
>> buffer overruns ;=).
>
> Because we're dumb!
>
> (Actually, in my defense, my code almost never, if ever, has buffer
> overruns.  I do in some rare cases have truncation issues with sufficiently
> ridiculous input data.)

I was referring to Schildt using gets() all the time and thereby 
teaching new C generations to do he same.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy