On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 12:14:35PM +0200, Chusslove Illich wrote: > > scripty should make reports and bug the respective maintainers when > > strings do not comply with some minimum disambiguation criteria (these > > could be statistically determined). > > Krazy has been doing this for several years now. [...] But to no > great avail. So by now programmer behavior has been sufficiently established > in this respect, a fact to count with. > that's because it does not *bug* them. as most of the reports are below the significance threshold of many developers or just plain false positives, almost nobody actually cares to visit the page.
> > now, i'm not sure i would solve it exactly this way - the extra argument > > seems wasteful (just like in all the inlined tr() calls). > > Argh, one extra argument wasteful, compared to everything else going on > under the hood :) > the "inlined" should be hint enough that i'm talking about code size. even small inefficiencies add up, so a functionally equivalent but more efficient solution is generally preferable.