From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel 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 Message-ID: <87k3w9509k.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83392zf7bu.fsf@gnu.org> <504506E8.5070506@cs.ucla.edu> <83r4qieszx.fsf@gnu.org> <25F1A420-CE2F-432B-BDE3-3E973E1B2CC3@swipnet.se> <50459584.8020209@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1346769365 11858 80.91.229.3 (4 Sep 2012 14:36:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 14:36:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Jan =?utf-8?Q?Dj=C3=A4rv?= , Stefan Monnier , "emacs-devel@gnu.org" To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 04 16:36:05 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1T8uEU-0000dv-Qw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2012 16:36:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56070 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T8uES-0008GI-2g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2012 10:36:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:52844) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T8uEH-0008G9-Di for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2012 10:35:58 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T8uEB-0006ww-Ju for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2012 10:35:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-pb0-f41.google.com ([209.85.160.41]:55347) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T8uE5-0006wA-14; Tue, 04 Sep 2012 10:35:37 -0400 Original-Received: by pbbro12 with SMTP id ro12so10266794pbb.0 for ; Tue, 04 Sep 2012 07:35:36 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=sender:from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=daUsCRx+60fdkhPDcdKk+5IzJiDOMixOidQAQmHZcyg=; b=woB8xEXY0jhMF6clV3jZRPNCiF6wj++nT4qzsiGKgXHYDukngBVGXgxsvNIr2uAeYM L9VvthEmSkrR6ZS3BVOBwJ7UT4qVzQwBnEVnckpoUCvEhE+VPCDPip4Tbrtdt4Xs1eZM eaNXPLAvsa0HPQ2qv2siuEtfwXTdCbuFlQO/6dJMx2luiaaHGbyKf0PwuppUctQajjBm t74xq1XAA5C05UvqZd+2L4iGXCC3n86wIpauFtLEFM3oLtRnqleI163ImhMfP9WC5Azw 1ZeM0NBcBwStxmYgq7jstkLknkGnGGdsFaNvxrqAtN9IMsZ+bcXqfTpBKmOue0gxzw08 QNBQ== Original-Received: by 10.68.222.170 with SMTP id qn10mr46098443pbc.114.1346769009087; Tue, 04 Sep 2012 07:30:09 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from home.jasonrumney.net ([180.75.154.97]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id os1sm12324024pbc.31.2012.09.04.07.30.04 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 04 Sep 2012 07:30:07 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by home.jasonrumney.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 945D112B5; Tue, 4 Sep 2012 22:29:59 +0800 (MYT) In-Reply-To: <50459584.8020209@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Mon, 03 Sep 2012 22:45:40 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 209.85.160.41 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:152991 Archived-At: Paul Eggert 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.