From: Glenn Morris <gmorris+emacs@ast.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: "Håkon Malmedal" <hmalmedal@yahoo.no>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: holidays.el
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 17:08:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jsbrfx7yt2.fsf@xpc14.ast.cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3ekktwa7u.fsf@kfs-l.imdomain.dk> (Kim F. Storm's message of "Thu, 23 Sep 2004 12:28:21 +0200")
Kim F. Storm wrote:
> It involves taking 40 lines from a function in holidays.el and
> change them into a form suitable for initializing a defcustom in
> calender.el.
>
> I agree that the 'transformation' is repetitive/mechanical, and the
> end-result is functionally equivalent to the original code. Still,
> the change involves more than just "moving" code.
Okay, slightly more than just moving; but most of the 40-odd lines can
be described as "do the same simple transformation 20 or so times". I
thought that 40 -> 2 (effectively) in such cases? Though I can't find
the reference at present for why I though that...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-23 16:08 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <"Message from hmalmedal"@yahoo.no>
2004-07-19 15:59 ` holidays.el Håkon Malmedal
2004-07-19 17:35 ` holidays.el Ed Reingold
2004-09-22 23:27 ` holidays.el Glenn Morris
2004-09-23 7:26 ` holidays.el Kim F. Storm
2004-09-23 10:05 ` holidays.el Glenn Morris
2004-09-23 10:28 ` holidays.el Kim F. Storm
2004-09-23 16:08 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2004-09-23 16:44 ` holidays.el Richard Stallman
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