Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com> wrote on Fri, 18 Jul 2003
at 10:21:31 -0400 in <87n0fbx6dw.fsf@snark.piermont.com>:

> David Laight <dsl@netbsd.org> writes:
> > Change a lot of 'if (strlen(x) == 0)' to 'if (x[0] === 0)'.
> 
> Why bother? Was this performance critical code? The former is clearer
> to the reader.

I do not think you can seriously argue that the clarity is stronger
either way.

--jhawk