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Re: bug#5813: remove __DJGPP__ version tests


From: Dan Nicolaescu
Subject: Re: bug#5813: remove __DJGPP__ version tests
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2010 04:35:50 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux)

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> Cc: address@hidden
>> From: Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden>
>> Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:26:43 -0400
>> 
>> Can you please also remove comments like:
>> /* Demacs 1.1.1 91/10/16 HIRANO Satoshi */
>> that have about zero use now.
>
> Sorry, no.  Not unless we are removing all the other "personalized"
> comments, of which we have quite a few.  Some examples:
>
>     /* Rewritten for clarity and GC protection by rms in Feb 94.  */
>
>     /* There is no way to specify the before_dot and after_dot
>        operators.  rms says this is ok.  --karl  */
>
>     /* rms, 2003-01-03: I think I have fixed this bug.  */
>
> Personally, I don't like to remove other people's credit, even when
> expressed in this form.  But if we are going to delete all such
> comments, I won't object.

IMHO as long as the personalized comments have some useful information.
/* Demacs 1.1.1 91/10/16 HIRANO Satoshi */ is kind of content free.
[I run into those by chance when searching for -Demacs...]




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