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From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>, "Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>,
	"Stefan Monnier" <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
	"emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r109864: Fix minor problems found by static checking.
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2012 22:29:59 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k3w9509k.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50459584.8020209@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Mon, 03 Sep 2012 22:45:40 -0700")

Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:

> Emacs tends to avoid 'const', though, partly
> because it predates 'const, and partly I expect because
> even in these other cases the readability advantage of
> omitting 'const' arguably trumps the minor advantages
> of using 'const'.

I think mostly because retrofitting const to a codebase the size of
Emacs is a huge task, and isn't something that can be done gradually.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-09-04 14:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.503691.1346667442.854.emacs-diffs@gnu.org>
2012-09-03 15:35 ` [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r109864: Fix minor problems found by static checking Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-03 18:54   ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-03 19:37   ` Paul Eggert
2012-09-03 20:44     ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-03 22:29       ` Paul Eggert
2012-09-04  3:41       ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-04  5:29         ` Jan Djärv
2012-09-04  5:45           ` Paul Eggert
2012-09-04  8:31             ` Jan Djärv
2012-09-04  8:58               ` Paul Eggert
2012-09-04 10:25                 ` Jan Djärv
2012-09-04 14:29             ` Jason Rumney [this message]
2012-09-04 19:19               ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-04 18:51             ` Wojciech Meyer
2012-09-04 18:22         ` Wojciech Meyer
2012-09-04 14:26   ` Jason Rumney
2012-09-04 14:33     ` Andreas Schwab
2012-09-04 16:52       ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-04 18:36         ` Wojciech Meyer

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