Re: [cp-patches] Stupid spec constant values

[Stuart Ballard]

(forgot to cc the list again)

On 10/5/05, Mark Wielaard <address@hidden> wrote:
> I think the "right thing to do" here is just ignoring this field.

I disagree, but you're the maintainer so I guess you get the final word.

> A constantly changing constant static field value is useless anyway.

Yes, but it's also harmless. And it's my opinion that false positives
in the error report *are* harmful in a small way.

If I can't convince you to check in the patch then I'll try to think
of a way to get japitools to ignore these. I'd rather not, though.

> And
> adding RCS keywords in our own source code only makes the problem worse
> since people have to be careful that they don't get expanded when moving
> the source around between repositories.

I carefully wrote the patch so that this wouldn't be an issue.

RCSID = "$" + "Id: ...

Stuart.
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