On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Julian Foad <julian.foad_at_wandisco.com> wrote:
> Greg Stein wrote:
>> Thanks for taking the time to do thus. Only recently did I realize that I
>> named the function incorrectly when I came up with it. In PoCore, I called
>> it pc_error_trace(), for the same reasons you suggested here.
>
> OK, I'll do it.
>
> Does anyone want me to leave "svn_error_return" as an alias for the time
> being, to be removed before 1.7.0, to avoid gratuitous failures with
> developers' local mods and when applying patches over the next few days?
> I'll happily do so if anyone says "yes" (it's very little extra work),
> but if no-one says "yes" then I won't.
Don't bother leaving the alias. Folks will have to fix it sooner or
later, might as well have them do it sooner.
>> > There are 695 uses of svn_error_return.
>> >
>> > 681 of them are "return svn_error_return(...);".
>> >
>> > The other 14 are "some_err = svn_error_return(...);".
>> >
>> > So if we're going to change the vast majority of these in any way, what
>> > do folks feel about replacing them with
>> >
>> > SVN_ERR_RETURN(...)
>>
>> No.
>>
>> SVN_ERR() is conditional. Code typically occurs afterwards, and is executed
>> in the non-exceptional case. You're talking about creating a normally-used
>> macro that will hide this control flow change.
>
> OK, good to hear your input.
Same. I knew there was a reason we didn't use this form when we were
designing this macro, but I just couldn't put my finger on it.
-Hyrum
Received on 2011-06-23 20:28:17 CEST