Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > comp.lang.c > #25493

Re: C format programs

From Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: C format programs
Date 2012-08-29 22:13 -0600
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <1bk3whkoet.fsf@pfeifferfamily.net> (permalink)
References <nuq2h9-p77.ln1@ID-306963.user.uni-berlin.de> <k1mg0e$m0r$1@dont-email.me> <3k03h9-1pf.ln1@ID-306963.user.uni-berlin.de> <aa82k5F8arU1@mid.individual.net>

Show all headers | View raw

Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> writes:

> On 08/30/12 02:43 PM, songbird wrote:
>>
>>    If it is code I'm working on a lot I turn the
>> macros into function calls as much as possible
>> and do the text substitutions.  But that makes
>> it hard to do comparisons to the originals to
>> see what of substance has changed...
>
> Use your source control system.
>
> Check in cosmetic changes on their own, never mix them with logic
> changes.  Then you should be able to isolate the former from the
> latter quite easily.

If you can cleanly separate your cosmetic changes from your logic
changes when working on code, to the point you can make a bunch of
changes that *only* fit one of those categories at a time, my hat is off
to you as a disciplined programmer.

Back to comp.lang.c | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

C format programs songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2012-08-29 21:07 -0400
  Re: C format programs Don't make my brown eyes China Blue <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2012-08-29 18:35 -0700
    Re: C format programs songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2012-08-29 21:50 -0400
      Re: C format programs ImpalerCore <jadill33@gmail.com> - 2012-08-29 20:32 -0700
        Re: C format programs songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2012-08-30 02:20 -0400
          Re: C format programs ImpalerCore <jadill33@gmail.com> - 2012-08-30 06:06 -0700
            Re: C format programs songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2012-08-30 22:44 -0400
    Re: C format programs Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-08-29 19:50 -0700
  Re: C format programs Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-08-29 21:35 -0400
    Re: C format programs songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2012-08-29 22:43 -0400
      Re: C format programs Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-08-30 14:48 +1200
        Re: C format programs Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-08-29 19:58 -0700
          Re: C format programs songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2012-08-30 01:07 -0400
            Re: C format programs Adrian Ratnapala <raka@scooter.fritz.box> - 2012-09-01 07:10 +0000
        Re: C format programs Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2012-08-29 22:13 -0600
          Re: C format programs Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-08-30 16:28 +1200
            Re: C format programs Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2012-08-30 08:55 -0600
              Re: C format programs Adrian Ratnapala <raka@scooter.fritz.box> - 2012-09-01 07:03 +0000
          Re: C format programs Phil Carmody <thefatphil_demunged@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-09-06 15:52 +0300

csiph-web