From owner-cvs-all Wed Oct 27 11:30:24 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31D4414CF6; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 11:30:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id LAA27984; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 11:30:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 11:30:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199910271830.LAA27984@apollo.backplane.com> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: "David E. O'Brien" , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/yacc skeleton.c References: <199910271751.KAA44299@freefall.freebsd.org> <3817416B.F171BB7D@newsguy.com> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk :"David E. O'Brien" wrote: :> :> obrien 1999/10/27 10:51:37 PDT :> :> Modified files: :> usr.bin/yacc skeleton.c :> Log: :> Allow a user specified parameter to 'yyparse()', in a manner similar to :> that used by bison. The names are consistent with the bison implementation :> but this one also allows the type of the parameter to be specified. : :The commit message is the wrong place to document the new behavior, :y'know... Unless one properly documents this, the change is all but :useless. : :-- :Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) :dcs@newsguy.com :dcs@freebsd.org I think the commit message is fine -- I wish other committers would write commit messages like that! But the behaviorial change should also be documented in the man page (yacc.1) for the reasons Daniel indicated. -Matt Matthew Dillon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message