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Re: Patch to codingconventions.html

On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:

> ??? is for something not really investigated, a hunch or
> possible problem, maybe just seen by browsing the code.  FIXME
> is for a deficiency or shortcoming that's a little bit more
> defined, but maybe just as a problem.  TODO describes a way to
> fix the FIXME (had it been one, if you know what I mean).  At
> least that's what they mean to me.

That is indeed a useful distinction - if it were followed with any 
consistency.

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