From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Aug 20 15:55:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D123415393; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 15:55:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id PAA32373; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 15:55:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: green owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 15:55:16 -0700 (PDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" To: "David O'Brien" Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/ddd Makefile In-Reply-To: <19990820120013.A55656@dragon.nuxi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, David O'Brien wrote: > > Sorry. Were those bogus portlint warnings then? > > Nope. From "The Ten Commandments for C Programmers" (Annotated Edition) > by Henry Spencer > > I. Thou shalt run lint frequently and study its pronouncements with > care, for verily its perception and judgement oft exceed thine. > > ..snip.. > ``Study'' doth not mean mindless zeal to eradicate every byte of lint > output--if for no other reason, because thou just canst not shut it > up about some things--but that thou should know the cause of its > unhappiness and understand what worrisome sign it tries to speak of. Ah. I never read that, but thanks, I'll keep it close to my heart :) -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman / "Any sufficiently advanced bug is \ green@FreeBSD.org | indistinguishable from a feature." | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! \ -- Rich Kulawiec / To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message