hardcoded constants

[Chip Salzenberg]

According to henry at utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer):
>Trouble is, often it's almost impossible to devise a meaningful name.
>I'm not talking about hard-coding things like choice of control characters,
>but about things like (in a function to concatenate two strings with a
>'/' in between):
>
>	foo = malloc(strlen(a)+strlen(b)+2);	/* 2 for '/' '\0' */

Not hard:

	foo = malloc(strlen(a)+sizeof("/")+strlen(b));

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