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Re: Quoted while loop on calccomp.el
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Jay Belanger |
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Re: Quoted while loop on calccomp.el |
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Sat, 16 Apr 2011 22:01:35 -0500 |
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Juanma Barranquero <address@hidden> writes:
...
> it is the '(while stuff an ugly, but intended way to comment out the
> while loop, or a mistake? Seems like the the latter, but if so, it's
> been there since the initial import of Calc 2.02f on revno:40770
> (2001-11-06), which makes that code suspiciously unneeded...
It's been there longer than that. It's in calc-comp.el from Calc 2.02,
which goes back to 1991 or so. (The quoted "while" may well be older than
that, but that's the earliest version of Calc I can find.) At this
point, I suppose replacing the "if" with something simpler is in order.
Jay