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Re: coding standards
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: coding standards |
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Sun, 4 Mar 2018 17:11:52 -0500 |
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On 3/4/18 7:43 AM, Clark Wang wrote:
>> i submitted a patch with code in form (A). it was added to the code base
>> in form (B). was there a good reason for this mutation?
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> I believe the main reason is to keep consistent with existing code.
That, plus the final change was smaller and simpler than the submitted
patch.
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
Re: coding standards, L A Walsh, 2018/03/06