Back to the issue... (was RE: Squeak coding style...)

John M McIntosh johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com
Wed Mar 3 05:21:43 UTC 2004


Well not that anyone has noticed that tpr who merges the VM code  
manages of course to zap the original author's initials JMM to
tpr so that history is lost...  Mind that means he supports those  
changes eh? Perhaps having the tool preserve existing initials would
be helpful.



On Mar 2, 2004, at 8:11 PM, John Pfersich wrote:

> tim Rowledge  wrote:
>>>
>> Perhaps this should be expanded so that uncommented methods (perhaps  
>> testing for more than a smallish number of bytecodes?) also have such  
>> a comment automagically added? Since we have the writers initials  
>> (normally) we could even make it be something like
>>
>> "That idiot tpr has not bothered to comment this method. What a loser"
>>
>> tim
>
> or how about
>
> "The author, jgp, has no idea what this method does. Use with extreme  
> caution."
>
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