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Re: [RFA] fix ref counting of inferior_to_inferior_object
- From: Doug Evans <dje at google dot com>
- To: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 14:11:26 -0700
- Subject: Re: [RFA] fix ref counting of inferior_to_inferior_object
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On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> wrote:
> Doug> Not that you disagree or anything, but IWBN to remove whim from
> Doug> the equation. Consistency Is Good, and all that.
>
> I'm not so sure. I think consistency is one good among many, and there
> is a cost to enforcing these sorts of rules.
There's (in general) less cost in enforcing fewer rules.
> This is particularly true if the code is already not consistent. Unless
> maybe you are volunteering to change it all.
I *will* volunteer to set a direction that we can all type in. :-)