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Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language
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Mathieu Lirzin |
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Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language |
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Wed, 14 Oct 2015 13:21:55 +0200 |
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Andy Moreton <address@hidden> writes:
> On Tue 13 Oct 2015, Oleh Krehel wrote:
[...]
>> "const char *" style is used in 85.9% of the cases. If you want to
>> revert those uses to "char const *" I'll support you, since I want the
>> consistency of a single style.
>
> Consistency is helpful, but pointless churn makes version history less
> useful, so please don't make this kind of change unless you are also
> making a semantic change to that area of the code.
[...]
>> 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.
>
> AndyM
Please express your opinion in a different way. This kind of language
is direspectful to Oleh. "other users and developers" have various
interests so please don't tell what others will find useful or not.
--
Mathieu Lirzin
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, (continued)
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, Paul Eggert, 2015/10/13
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, Oleh Krehel, 2015/10/13
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, Andy Moreton, 2015/10/13
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, Przemysław Wojnowski, 2015/10/14
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, Tassilo Horn, 2015/10/14
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, Przemysław Wojnowski, 2015/10/14
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, Oleh Krehel, 2015/10/14
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, Tassilo Horn, 2015/10/14
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, David Kastrup, 2015/10/15
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, Tassilo Horn, 2015/10/14
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language,
Mathieu Lirzin <=
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, John Wiegley, 2015/10/14
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, Oleh Krehel, 2015/10/15
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, Andy Moreton, 2015/10/14
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/10/14
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, John Wiegley, 2015/10/13
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/10/12
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, Steinar Bang, 2015/10/12
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, David Kastrup, 2015/10/12
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, Daniel Colascione, 2015/10/12
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, Óscar Fuentes, 2015/10/15