Re: Coding standards

[Phil Edwards <pedwards at jaj dot com>]

 Jason Merrill <jason@cygnus.com> writes:
>  > Some of us do it all the time, because there's a lot of editors which
>  > can handle looking for ^foo regexps but don't use any kind of tags file.
>
> And you find that useful for non-definitions?

Well, it's written to be at the beginning /because/ we can easily search
for it, so searching for it using ^foo is useful because that's why it's
written that way...

(The Strong Indentanthropic Principle, maybe?  I think I missed something.)

Anyhow, I'm not arguing for one viewpoint or the other; I just wanted to
point out that the "nobody does that anyway" statement is not the case in
practice.  Again, if you want to change it, I'm not going to complain --
I'm hardly a major contributor.  :-)  I have been surprised in the past
that there're no tags files in the repository.


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Phil