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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: "René Scharfe" <l.s.r@web.de>, "Git List" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Chandra Pratap" <chandrapratap3519@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] t-prio-queue: simplify using compound literals
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2024 09:57:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqo7ajdc6y.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240407012844.GC1085004@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Sat, 6 Apr 2024 21:28:44 -0400")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

>> We should still be hesitant against the practice to the same degree
>> that we are hesitant against struct assignment, especially when the
>> struct is of nontrivial size, or the struct has a pointer member
>> whose memory ownership semantics goes against shallow copying of the
>> struct.
>
> Good point. There are really two thresholds: is this something that
> should be totally forbidden, and is this something that is generally a
> good idea. I think the answers here are "no" and "yes" respectively.

I agree with your conclusion but I found the above a bit confusing.

Between "totally horrible, do not even think about it" (0%) and
"that is of course an excellent idea" (100%), you want to have two
points "might have some merit but not acceptable" (33%) and
something else that is less than "of course an excellent idea" but
still acceptable (66%)?  I would not phrase the last threshold "is
generally a good idea", though.  "It is not generally a good idea,
but in this case, it is an adequate solution", maybe.


  reply	other threads:[~2024-04-08 16:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-04-02 18:30 [RFC][PATCH] t-prio-queue: simplify using compound literals René Scharfe
2024-04-02 20:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-04-02 20:41 ` Jeff King
2024-04-05 17:44   ` René Scharfe
2024-04-05 19:17     ` Jeff King
2024-04-05 22:01       ` Junio C Hamano
2024-04-06  7:06         ` René Scharfe
2024-04-07  1:28         ` Jeff King
2024-04-08 16:57           ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2024-04-08 17:09             ` Jeff King
2024-04-11 21:23 ` Josh Steadmon

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