Re: [PATCH 1/5] Introduces for_each_revision() helper

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"Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino" <lcapitulino@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
writes:

> Em Fri, 27 Apr 2007 12:32:11 -0700
> Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> escreveu:
>
> | "Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino" <lcapitulino@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> | writes:
> | 
> | > From: Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino <lcapitulino@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> | >
> | > This macro may be used to iterate over revisions, so, instead of
> | > doing: ...
> | 
> | I am not a big fan of magic control-flow macros, as it makes the
> | code harder to grok for people new to the codebase.
>
>  Yeah, I agree. But I think that any experienced programmer will
> understand it.
>
>  Anyways, I don't want to raise polemic discussions for minor
> changes. Feel free to drop this one then.

I on the other hand like the kernel style list macros.

The reason I do not like this particular one is because both
operations you are hiding are not simple operations like
"initialize a variable to list head" or "follow a single pointer
in the structure", but rather heavyweight operations with rather
complex semantics.  I would want to make sure that people
realize they are calling something heavyweight when they use the
revision traversal.

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