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From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
To: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Guile-commits] GNU Guile branch, master, updated. release_1-9-11-73-gedb3cfc
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 09:25:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3eig7h21g.fsf@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eig7j55n.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic Courtès"'s message of "Wed, 16 Jun 2010 00:35:16 +0200")

On Wed 16 Jun 2010 00:35, ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org> writes:
>
>>    The ‘--ttn’ can also be omitted since we’d rather communicate by email
>>    than via comments in ‘configure.ac’.  :-)
>>
>> That's a personal style point, i'd say.  Do you really insist on its removal?
>
> More importantly, I insist on reaching a consensus.  :-)
>
> There are places in the old C code base where people really seemed to be
> talking to each other via comments.  That seems misplaced to me.
> Development discussions should take place on this mailing list IMO.

I agree. If a comment matters, it has to be maintainable, so it should
be a statement about code and not between people. I don't want to feel
that I can't edit a comment because it's not from me ;)

Andy
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      reply	other threads:[~2010-06-16  7:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <E1OOUGG-0001JC-VC@vcs-noshell.in.savannah.gnu.org>
2010-06-15 21:08 ` [Guile-commits] GNU Guile branch, master, updated. release_1-9-11-73-gedb3cfc Ludovic Courtès
2010-06-15 22:22   ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2010-06-15 22:35     ` Ludovic Courtès
2010-06-16  7:25       ` Andy Wingo [this message]

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