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Re: [ada] Revert stamp-xgnatug related make-lang.in change


kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner) writes:

|     Personally, I prefer 'FIXME': it is easier to search for, using
|     ordinary tools that support various notions of regex. 
| 
| Why?  

some of the tools (e.g. Perl) use '?' as a meta character.

|     grep "FIXME" *.c
| 
| vs.
| 
|     grep "???" *.c

that means the set of your "ordinary tools that various notions of
regex" is reduced to {grep} :-) 

-- Gaby


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