On Dec 10, 2012, at 02:33 PM, Bradley M. Froehle wrote: >Interesting, the LibraryStyleGuide [1] suggests a plain `=` and the >AppStyleGuide [2] suggests `:=`. (The difference of course is that `=` >does delayed evaluation meaning the command is run once for every time the >variable is needed, and `:=` does immediate evaluation meaning the command >is run only once when the variable is set.
I'm nearly positive not much thought went into those choices - they were probably cargo-culted along the way. I don't have a strong opinion about what should be used since I doubt the optimization would be noticed, but let's do at least make them consistent. Cheers, -Barry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
