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... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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