Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Jan 2007 06:02:07 -0500 (EST) | From | "Robert P. J. Day" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Introduce simple TRUE and FALSE boolean macros. |
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On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > by adding (temporarily) the definitions of TRUE and FALSE to > > types.h, you should then (theoretically) be able to delete over > > 100 instances of those same macros being *defined* throughout the > > source tree. you're not going to be deleting the hundreds and > > hundreds of *uses* of TRUE and FALSE (not yet, anyway) but, at the > > very least, by adding two lines to types.h, you can delete all > > those redundant *definitions* and make sure that nothing breaks. > > (it shouldn't, of course, but it's always nice to be sure.) > > Doesn't seem very worthwhile, and it legitimises this definition > we're trying to get rid of.
hmmmmmmmm ... apparently, you totally missed my use of the important word "temporarily":
$ grep -r "temporary hack" . | wc -l 16
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