svn 14567

Tito farmatito at tiscali.it
Mon Mar 20 19:40:09 UTC 2006


On Monday 20 March 2006 18:20, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Monday 20 March 2006 12:06 pm, Aurelien Jacobs wrote:
> > On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 11:07:08 -0500
> >
> > Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:
> > > On Monday 20 March 2006 2:30 am, Tito wrote:
> > > > On Monday 20 March 2006 00:32, Rob Landley wrote:
> > > > > Adding a comment is nice, but how is #defining a constant just to use
> > > > > it on the next an improvement?
> > > >
> > > > So we know where the magic numbers came from and what they are supposed
> > > > to do...?!
> > > >
> > > > ;-P
> > >
> > > Why wouldn't that fall under the "adding a comment is nice" part?
> >
> > Maybe because that already fall under the "self-documenting code is great"
> > part ;-)
> 
> If that was true, why would you need the comment?

To see where this constants came from so that you don't need to grep 
all the kernel source to find them.

Tito
> > Aurel



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