Leave it in! On Sat, 3 Mar 2007 7:07 pm, John Denker wrote: > On 03/03/2007 05:18 PM, Durk Talsma wrote: >> .... Also note that many cout statements still in the code are >> commented >> out, for potential use in future development / debugging. > > That's exactly what we're talking about today : couts that output > *nothing* unless a developer steps in to request something. > >> Personally, I don't object against commented-out cout / cerr >> statements >> in the code if the author wants to retain them for ongoing >> development. > > Agreed! > > There are thousands of such couts in the code already, and they serve > a useful purpose. > > As I said earlier, there is a theory going around that open code > should be really, really open, in a broad /practical/ sense, not > just in some narrow legal sense. > > This also falls under the heading of DfT (design for test). Having > gone to the trouble of creating a test harness, why not leave it in > there for other folks to use? I don't think it would make much sense > to have each person who wants to test the code re-invent and > re-implement > the test harness. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share > your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
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