Re: [bug-gawk] Overflow to Infinity

[Eli Zaretskii]

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> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 20:51:41 -0600
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> > > Do you wish to review the code and submit a suggested patch?
> >
> > Do we agree about the principles?
> 
> Not yet.
> 
> > I was rather under the impression that we didn't, in which case submitting
> > a patch would just waste everybody's time.
> 
> Submiting a patch allows you to show me the error of my ways and
> to better convince me that we can "do something better than what
> C does".  Without a concrete alternative, the discussion is (or feels
> like to me that it is) just hand waving.
> 
> I offer you the opportunity to submit a patch as proof of my open-
> mindedness and that it's not just a "waste of everybody's time."

Sorry, I didn't mean to annoy, let alone offend.  I meant "waste" in
the positive meaning: I'd like to avoid asking you and others to
invest your time in reviewing patches if it is known in advance that
the basic assumption behind the patches is not acceptable, because
we'd just go back to arguing on those assumptions.

I think we should wait for your analysis of the output I sent (I'm
here to help and answer questions, of course), before we move to
discussing further actions.  Does that make sense?