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Re: Criteria for Acceptable Git to ChangeLog
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Criteria for Acceptable Git to ChangeLog |
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Wed, 16 May 2018 23:04:04 -0400 |
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> I'm not sure how to understand "not in global scope".
> Could you clarify that?
> I mean a varible which is not local to a function, and is not declared
static.
I would say, rather, that any variable definition which is not inside
of a function is an entity.
This would not include extern declarations -- they are not definitions.
> I hadn't thought about c++ much. classes are not a problem. They are just
> special cases of structs. However things like templates can make the
> parsing rather tricky.
I don't know what templates look like, but if they are no inside
of some other entity, surely they should be treated as entities.
> In most cases, an entity is a maximal syntactic construct.
> However, if something is not maximal but has an
> openbrace in column zero, it is also an entity.
> I don't know what the term "maximal syntactic construct" means. Can
> you explain.
A syntactic construct is maximal
if it is not contained in some other syntactic construct.
"Maximal" is a common concept in mathematics.
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- Re: Criteria for Acceptable Git to ChangeLog, John Darrington, 2018/05/15
- Re: Criteria for Acceptable Git to ChangeLog, Richard Stallman, 2018/05/15
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- Re: Criteria for Acceptable Git to ChangeLog, John Darrington, 2018/05/17
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