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Re: off-by-one in get_ident
Andrew Pinski <pinskia@physics.uc.edu> writes:
| On Dec 13, 2005, at 3:28 PM, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
|
| > Andrew, when you write messages like this, do you honestly believe you
| > are adding any value to the development process? Please don't. It's
| > not your opinion of C++ that matters here but the consensus of the
| > developers, and we already came to a consensus the LAST time this was
| > discussed.
|
| Actually there was no consensus IIRC. The discussion just died.
the coding conventions was not changed last time you asked and you
were pointed to the coding conventions.
| Nothing
| came up from it. In fact codingconventions.html does not mention this
| case
| at all.
The coding convention says:
Avoid the use of identifiers or idioms that would prevent code
compiling with a C++ compiler.
it goes on enumerating most the obvious cases, but the general
principle is to avoid idioms that would prevent code compiling with a
C++ compiler. That was the case in the issue I raised in my original
email.
[...]
| For one I don't like casts.
Me neither.
-- Gaby