Re: Criteria for Acceptable Git to ChangeLog

[Richard Stallman]

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  >      I'm not sure how to understand "not in global scope".
  >      Could you clarify that?

  > I mean a varible which is not local to a function, and is not declared 
static.

I would say, rather, that any variable definition which is not inside
of a function is an entity.

This would not include extern declarations -- they are not definitions.

  > I hadn't thought about c++ much.  classes are not a problem.  They are just 
  > special cases of structs.  However things like templates can make the 
  > parsing rather tricky.

I don't know what templates look like, but if they are no inside
of some other entity, surely they should be treated as entities.

  >      In most cases, an entity is a maximal syntactic construct.
  >      However, if something is not maximal but has an
  >      openbrace in column zero, it is also an entity.

  > I don't know what the term "maximal syntactic construct" means.  Can
  > you explain.

A syntactic construct is maximal
if it is not contained in some other syntactic construct.
"Maximal" is a common concept in mathematics.


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