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On Saturday, August 25, 2012, drain <aeus...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If this function did not read input from the user, the OR expression would
> serve a purpose; since "buffer" could have been assigned an actual buffer
> elsewhere in the body of a larger function (that insert-buffer had been
> embedded into).

Replace "embedded into" with "called by," and you've answered your own
question.

-- 
-PJ

Gehm's Corollary to Clark's Law: Any technology distinguishable from
magic is insufficiently advanced.

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On Saturday, August 25, 2012, drain &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:aeus...@gmail.com=
">aeus...@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br>&gt; If this function did not read in=
put from the user, the OR expression would<br>&gt; serve a purpose; since &=
quot;buffer&quot; could have been assigned an actual buffer<br>
&gt; elsewhere in the body of a larger function (that insert-buffer had bee=
n<br>&gt; embedded into).<br><br>Replace &quot;embedded into&quot; with &qu=
ot;called by,&quot; and you&#39;ve answered your own question.<br><br>-- <b=
r>
-PJ<br><br>Gehm&#39;s Corollary to Clark&#39;s Law: Any technology distingu=
ishable from<br>magic is insufficiently advanced.<br>

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