Robert Collins wrote: > On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 20:07, Max Bowsher wrote: > > >> I don't think that the fact that a big cleanup is possible should prevent a >> small cleanup from being done. > > I agree. But as the larger will involve reversing this specific small > cleanup. Secondly creating a couple of classes with a static member each > is only slightly more effort, and won't involve reversing any changes > when the 'big' cleanup is done.
If we do add a class, it should probably be a thread class from which all of our threaded tasks can derive. Regardless, I don't see that any further cleanup will reverse these changes. I can see how it may involve changing the same lines to a third form, but that is not a reversal. In any case, this is a tiny patch, and even *if* (partial) reversal is required, to do so will be trivial. We can benefit *now* from this cleanup, whereas classes may be months in the future. Requesting to commit, Max.
