On Sun, 13 Oct 2019, Markus Elfring wrote:
> >>> virtual patch
> >>
> >> This variable should be omitted if it will not be used in subsequent SmPL
> >> rules.
> >
> > There is no harm to have it.
>
> Can you get additional software development concerns if you would look at
> a bug report on a topic like “Metavariables with the type "virtual" prevent
> proper initialisation for Python scripts.” once more?
> https://github.com/coccinelle/coccinelle/issues/35
This comment is completely irrelevant. There is a difference between a
virtual rule, that one can declare as being matched or not from the
command line, and a virtual metavariable in a script, that has to be bound
for the script to be executed.
julia
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