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From: "Luke-Jr" <luke@dashjr•org>
To: Gavin Andresen <gavinandresen@gmail•com>
Cc: bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] [PULL] When parsing base58 data, accept [0O] as o, and [l|!] as 1
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 12:43:22 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201108121243.24207.luke@dashjr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABsx9T0iCYr591RVXA40mHMU75sEL0AfbbBHXFaz0XLFp6_kFQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Friday, August 12, 2011 12:35:27 PM Gavin Andresen wrote:
> pszDecode58 is not a pointer to a zero-terminated string; it should be
> pnDecode58.

Updated variable name in branch...

> I'm torn between "meh, whatever" and "this will just cause people
> headaches when they wonder why vanity addresses don't work in
> blockexplorer because theymos decides not to bother changing his
> code..."

Perhaps the vanity use would need to be introduced only after the community 
has accepted these as alternative legitimate representations. Even without 
that, I think gracefully handling the typos would be sensible.



      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-08-12 16:43 UTC|newest]

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2011-08-12 16:19 Luke-Jr
     [not found] ` <CABsx9T0iCYr591RVXA40mHMU75sEL0AfbbBHXFaz0XLFp6_kFQ@mail.gmail.com>
2011-08-12 16:43   ` Luke-Jr [this message]

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