Re: [RFA] fix ref counting of inferior_to_inferior_object

Doug Evans
2013-09-25T21:11:30Z

On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> wrote:
> Doug> Not that you disagree or anything, but IWBN to remove whim from
> Doug> the equation. Consistency Is Good, and all that.
>
> I'm not so sure. I think consistency is one good among many, and there
> is a cost to enforcing these sorts of rules.

There's (in general) less cost in enforcing fewer rules.

> This is particularly true if the code is already not consistent. Unless
> maybe you are volunteering to change it all.

I *will* volunteer to set a direction that we can all type in. :-)