From: "Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
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, 4 Sep 2012 10:31:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AC0897E3-0C75-403E-8407-EEBA0A8FC4AF@swipnet.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50459584.8020209@cs.ucla.edu>
Hello.
4 sep 2012 kl. 07:45 skrev Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>:
> On 09/03/2012 10:29 PM, Jan Djärv wrote:
>> Emacs does not use const much.
>
> It's typically easy to determine whether a local variable
> is never changed once initialized, simply by reading the code.
> So, for local variables, 'const' is typically more trouble than
> it's worth, as it adds a bit of noise to the code
> without much compensating value.
>
I disagree. Given that Emacs have quite a lot of functions that are more than a couple of hundred lines long, it is not typically easy. For smaller functions, it can be, but small functions sometimes becomes big.
Jan D.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-04 8:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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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 [this message]
2012-09-04 8:58 ` Paul Eggert
2012-09-04 10:25 ` Jan Djärv
2012-09-04 14:29 ` Jason Rumney
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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