Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany schrieb:
Hi Thorsten,
kendy and me now intend to execute the once-postponed plan to remove
external header guards (that #ifndef STUFF #include <STUFF> #endif
ugliness). A bit more background:
http://blog.thebehrens.net/2008/02/05/obsolete-external-header-guards/
We already discusses this a little bit by PM, so you know I have to ask
this here :)
What, except removing some "ugliness", which is alway highly subjective,
is the gain of this change?
Maintainability.
The "uglyness" IMHO is not subjective, and a defect. Maintainability is
a major problem in any project as huge as OOo, so any improvement is
helpful. The external header guards have two kinds of impact:
- unnecessary code,
- a potential cause for difficult to find errors, when internal include
guards change.
I think we should welcome the opportunity that somebody is willing to do
this work.
Nikolai
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