Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 11:34:53 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Style 9 nitpicking question Message-ID: <p05101003b7a2e8791588@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20010817015906.Q38066@elvis.mu.org> References: <200108161551.f7GFpLK72129@grimreaper.grondar.za> <20010817162340.O34503-100000@besplex.bde.org> <20010817015906.Q38066@elvis.mu.org>
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At 1:59 AM -0500 8/17/01, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>Actually it's quite useful, it means:
>
>"I the author of this code am fully aware that this function returns
>a value, however I know that it either will always have a certain
>outcome, or that the outcome doesn't matter because I'm attempting
>to salvage something, or that at this point a failure is of no
>concern."
Or it means:
"I copied this code from some other section, and whoever wrote
that section put these stupid voids there."
:-)
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