On 01/07/2014 01:11 AM, Joshua Cranmer 🐧 wrote:
On 1/6/2014 6:06 PM, smaug wrote:
On 01/07/2014 01:38 AM, Joshua Cranmer 🐧 wrote:
On 1/6/2014 4:27 PM, Robert O'Callahan wrote:
That's just not true, sorry. If some module owner decides to keep
using NULL or PRUnichar, or invent their own string class, they will
be corrected.
Maybe. But we also have a very large number of deprecated or
effectively-deprecated constructs whose deprecation module owners may
not be aware of
because their use is somewhat prevalent in code. For example, the
NS_ENSURE_* macros are apparently now considered officially deprecated.
Since when? NS_ENSURE_ macros are very useful for debugging. (When
something is going wrong, the warnings in the terminal tend to give
strong
hints what/where that something is. Reduces debugging time
significantly.)
Since Benjamin's message of November 22:
<news://news.mozilla.org/mailman.11861.1385151580.23840.dev-platf...@lists.mozilla.org>
(search for "Please use NS_WARN_IF instead of NS_ENSURE_SUCCESS" if you
don't have an NNTP client). Although there wasn't any prior discussion
of the wisdom of this change, whether or not to use
NS_ENSURE_SUCCESS-like patterns has been the subject of very acrimonious
debates in the past and given the voluminous discussion on style guides
in recent times, I'm not particularly inclined to start yet another one.
FWIW, I've never seen much support for this change from anyone else than
Benjamin, and only in his modules the NS_ENSURE_* macros have been
effectively deprecated.
HTH
Ms2ger
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