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Date:      Wed, 30 Jan 2002 11:03:48 +0100
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        Dallas De Atley <deatley@apple.com>, arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: __P macro question
Message-ID:  <20020130100347.GG22384@daemon.ninth-circle.org>
In-Reply-To: <3C57B51B.F38D1906@mindspring.com>
References:  <FD5651F8-1537-11D6-993F-003065766C3C@apple.com> <3C57B51B.F38D1906@mindspring.com>

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[Lots of snipping of irrelevant diatribing(verbifying nouns while I am
at it)]

-On [20020130 10:00], Terry Lambert (tlambert2@mindspring.com) wrote:
>Current policy is to not add the macro to new code, but to
>not remove it on old code, in order to minimize gratuitous
>changes to the source tree.

Maintenance includes gratuitous changes, otherwise you can never fully
reach a new situation in which clean-ups are present, and you keep
lugging along stuff from decades ago with no real use to the world
anymore.

But then again, I prefer consistency and cleanliness over easiness for
developers.

-- 
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven / asmodai / Kita no Mono / xMach coreteam
asmodai@[wxs.nl|xmach.org], finger asmodai@ninth-circle.org
http://www.softweyr.com/asmodai/
Things do not change, we change...

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