On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 7:14 PM Kevin Barry <barr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm still convinced it is a hack. Commonly, the "hack" term is used for > indicating a work-around with some emphasis. > > In the case we are talking about, David's suggestion would be a simple > work-around (---> improper use of a label to bypass the problem). > > I think you're overthinking things here: think of copyright as a name > for any text you might want to put at the bottom of the first page. > It's not important what I think, it is important what can be read on the code at a glance. If I write copyright = "Composed in 2021", then I have to add a comment note above that line as memo for explaining that the copyright field was used for another purpose. Not a clean code, IMHO.