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On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 04:15:59PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: > On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 10:11:58AM -0500, Jesse Luehrs wrote: > > A lot of work that gets done on the core these days (especially by > > people new to core development) involves a lot of cargo culting because > > it's not clear whether the way things are done are actually important or > > not, but at least the way things are done do actually work. Reducing the > > I'm somewhat suspicious that the "these days" statement was also fairly > true 10 years ago. Yes. Oh $DEITY, yes. For example, I just committed 6bc2995bd which reversed a change made in *1997*, a cargo cult test for SvGMAGICAL() that was added by some n00b named Chi... uh, hrm. Never mind. -- Chip SalzenbergThread Previous | Thread Next