John Smith [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2011-10-24 🗒️ Summary of this message: A discussion ...

📅 Original date posted:2011-10-24
🗒️ Summary of this message: A discussion about code quality in Bitcoin development, with one participant acknowledging the presence of "fun with knives" code.
📝 Original message:Yes, you're right, there is a lot of code is in the "fun with knives"
category.

JS

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Amir Taaki <zgenjix at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hahaha you mean like unitialised variables, inheriting from containers with
> non-virtual dtors (CScript) and delicious copy pasta coding (PushMessage,
> bignum and serialize stuff).
>
> No need to worry about that :)
>
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> *From:* John Smith <witchspace81 at gmail.com>
> *To:* theymos <theymos at mm.st>
> *Cc:* bitcoin-development at lists.sourceforge.net
> *Sent:* Monday, October 24, 2011 6:02 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [Bitcoin-development] Fwd: bitcoin scope issue in main.cpp
>
>
> Yes, I know that. It compiles.
>
> If we pulled all the 'This is legal in C++' tricks in the bitcoin source it
> would be even less maintainable and readable than now. But whatever...
>
> JS
>
> On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 10:51 PM, theymos <theymos at mm.st> wrote:
>
> It's legal for a scope to define variables with names that conflict with
> the names of variables in higher-level scopes.
>
>
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