From: Warren Toomey <wkt@tuhs.org>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Whence did "XXX" come about?
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2020 06:28:31 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200903202831.GA10755@minnie.tuhs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2009040325180.99359@aneurin.horsfall.org>
On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 03:32:58AM +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> For yonks I've been seeing "XXX" as a flag to mean "needs more work" or
> "look at this carefully, just in case" etc, and I use it myself.
Me too, for the same reason: the code is tricky or subtle or needs fixing.
It does tend to make my students raise their eyebrows; perhaps they have
their nanny filters turned on :-)
Cheers, Warren
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-03 20:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-03 17:32 Dave Horsfall
2020-09-03 18:11 ` Warner Losh
2020-09-03 20:35 ` Warner Losh
2020-09-03 20:54 ` Dan Halbert
2020-09-03 22:13 ` Steve Nickolas
2020-09-04 3:02 ` Christopher Browne
2020-09-03 20:28 ` Warren Toomey [this message]
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