On Thu, May 17 2012, Jani Nikula <jani at nikula.org> wrote: > In short, when you read enough code, having everything explicitly > stated becomes a burden. It's explicit, but you have to read it all, > even when there really is no need to.
Not everyone who reads the code is an expert. I think it's important for the code to be clear to everyone. Experts can more easily gloss over the trivial parts than novices can divine things that are hidden. jamie. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 835 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/attachments/20120517/cfc5b5c4/attachment.pgp>
