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Quote from John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org>: > John Bradford writes: > > Then why didn't the original programmer leave a patch space to allow for > > such modifications? Surely that could be considered part of the > > 'preferred form'. > > It would be the 'preferred form' if and only if it's the form in which he > wrote it, patch space or no. But does 'preferred form' == 'the form it was written in' necessarily apply for things like assembler? My example about leaving a patch space wasn't really serious, I was just using it to demonstrate that point. John. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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