how to get an underscore character

stéphane ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Sat Apr 29 07:38:10 UTC 2006


On 29 avr. 06, at 03:36, David T. Lewis wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 10:19:48AM -0700, Chris Muller wrote:
>>  OTOH, Lint barks about methods with no timestamp.  Maybe this is  
>> an opportunity to "clean up" methods with no timestamp; i.e.,  
>> since there isn't any reasonable historical information anyway,  
>> this may be reason to put in a timestamp of the person running the  
>> script (again, only for methods with no timestamp currently).
>
> No.
>
> Any method with a nil timestamp should left that way, or failing  
> this should
> be attributed to the dawn of time, which appears to have been  
> 1901-01-01
> in some unspecified time zone possible rooted in California, or  
> perhaps in
> Greenwich, England. Personally, I think they should be left as nil,  
> which
> retains the scope of the original ambiguity.
>
> What should absolutely positively not be done is to attibute the  
> original
> methods to initials and time stamps other than those of the actual  
> authors.
> This is not merely confusing, it is disrespectful of the original  
> authors'
> work.

I agree but we could use SqC this way we could have better code that  
does not have to check
for isNil...

Stef




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