Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language

[Przemysław Wojnowski]

W dniu 2015-10-13 23:02, Andy Moreton napisał(a):
[...]
> > I don't. I have no problem spending time to replace "char const *" 
> > into
> > "const char *". Browsing through a code base that I want to get 
> > familiar
> > with and fixing a small annoyance doesn't sound bad to me.
>
> Pointless churn. Find something that fixes an bug, or adds a useful new
> feature, and work on that. You will find it more rewarding, and other
> users and developers will find your contribution more helpful.

Refactorings that increase maintainability (like this one) are very 
useful to other developers.

Such changes, even small, accumulate towards something that can be 
called a "maintainable system".
In (wannabe) healthy systems it is everyday practice.