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Subject: Re: CFD: XMLification of NOTES
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Alex Keahan <alex@hightemplar.com> writes:
> On Wednesday 31 Mar 2004 1:54 am, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:
> > Alexey Zelkin <phantom@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > > Strange.  IMO LINT was existed for exactly this reason
> > Your opinion does not matter.  The purpose of LINT is to cover as much
> > code as possible.  Why do you think it's called LINT?
> Why doesn't his opinion matter?

Because this is a question of fact, not of opinion.  Alexey's opinion
of what NOTES might be useful for does not change the fact of what it
was created for.

> Perhaps my opinion does not matter either, but as a developer and
> long-time FreeBSD user, I don't think that XMLification of NOTES is
> such a bad idea.

that is not what "your opinion does not matter" referred to.

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