[RFA] fix ref counting of inferior_to_inferior_object

Doug Evans dje@google.com
Wed Sep 25 21:11:00 GMT 2013


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. :-)



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