Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2011 00:33:43 -0700 From: Xin LI <delphij@gmail.com> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> Cc: svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Xin LI <delphij@freebsd.org>, svn-src-stable-8@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r220250 - in stable/8: bin/test tools/regression/bin/test Message-ID: <BANLkTinubz%2B00HneNukiuZTeOMXfu0=JtQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110402015552.GA32901@FreeBSD.org> References: <201104011823.p31INiHv055195@svn.freebsd.org> <20110402015552.GA32901@FreeBSD.org>
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2011/4/1 Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>: > On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 06:23:44PM +0000, Xin LI wrote: >> =C2=A0 Accept =3D=3D as an alias of =3D which is a popular GNU extension= . >> >> =C2=A0 This is intentionally undocumented for now since it's not part >> =C2=A0 of any standard. > > I thought general consensus that this change should never be part of > FreeBSD, not just being undocumented (which, as we all know, is bad > practice pe se). This have been discussed in -standards@ and have been settled for more than 1 month, there were two developers asked me after the commit but nobody asked for a revert (so far), so I don't think it's general consensus that this change should not be part of FreeBSD. Being undocumented means we do not encourage its use. I think there is good reason to add this extension for compatibility reasons, plus it does not break anything. So did I missed some discussion about why it's a bad move? Cheers, --=20 Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net> http://www.delphij.net
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