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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 22019@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22019: 25.0.50; Bad comment in `character-fold-to-regexp'
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2015 01:38:33 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1a2Cfx-0000ut-SV@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3a754c45-2dc0-403f-9396-cefca118454d@default> (message from Drew Adams on Thu, 26 Nov 2015 15:03:36 -0800 (PST))

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  > This part of an explanatory comment is inadequate and inappropriate:

  >  ;; See commit message for a longer description.

That's right.  GNU standard practices say the place to put
an explanation is in a comment, not in a change log.

Can someone please fix this one now?  We shouldn't leave this
dirty in the sink overnight.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org)
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-11-27  6:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-26 23:03 bug#22019: 25.0.50; Bad comment in `character-fold-to-regexp' Drew Adams
2015-11-26 23:40 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-27  6:38 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2015-11-27  8:54   ` Eli Zaretskii

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