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[Python-Dev] Special-casing "O"

[Python-Dev] Special-casing "O" [Python-Dev] Special-casing "O"Thomas Wouters thomas@xs4all.net
Mon, 28 May 2001 00:58:30 +0200
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 06:49:38PM -0400, Tim Peters wrote:

> 1%-of-the-work-for-80%-of-the-gain-and-an-overall-decrease-in-code-
>     size-ly y'rs  - tim

And recycle a quote a day ;)

> PS:  But today I'll add another:  add at least one comment to the code --
> this stuff is a bitch to reverse-engineer.

But not just any comment, please! The Pine sourcecode is riddled with calls
to 'mm_critical(stream)', and each call I've seen so far is nicely commented
with the utterly useless comment '/* go critical */'.

I'd-gladly-trade-in-every-mm_critical-comment-for-one-comment-to-describe-
 -what-Pine-actually-tries-to-do-ly y'rs,

-- 
Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net>

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