[WHL] Re: [WHL] Re: More about keywords

[Ben Wing]

I looked for every place that called locate-library, to see what it does
with it.

> Hey, it works, it means I never have to worry about updating 
> a version variable, it has a certain degree of "coolness 
> factor", and at the time, it gave me all kinds of 
> warm-fuzzy-I'm-a-clever-dick feelings (programmers can be so 
> biased and vain). :-)

Sorry to criticize, you are certainly allowed to be biased and vain :)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Youngs [mailto:steve at youngs.au.com] 
> Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 9:29 PM
> To: Ben Wing
> Cc: 'XEmacs beta'
> Subject: [WHL] Re: [WHL] Re: More about keywords
> 
> 
> * Ben Wing <ben at 666.com> writes:
> 
>   >> From: Steve Youngs [mailto:steve at youngs.au.com] 
> 
>   >> Please be careful with that, mozmail.el, for one, uses CVS 
>   >> keywords for its version info...
> 
>   > Imo this is a highly questionable hack.
> 
> Hey, it works, it means I never have to worry about updating 
> a version variable, it has a certain degree of "coolness 
> factor", and at the time, it gave me all kinds of 
> warm-fuzzy-I'm-a-clever-dick feelings (programmers can be so 
> biased and vain). :-)
> 
>   >> I'd be surprised if it was the only one.
> 
>   > Only mozmail and google-query use it
> 
> OK, I'm surprised.  Or were you just looking for my 
> interpretation of extracting version info from CVS keywords?
> 
>   > and we can special-case them.
> 
> Cool.
> 
>   > Much better to err on the safe side -- unintended fucking around
>   > in Mule files can easily go undetected until too late.
> 
> Totally agree.
> 
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