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RedHat once committed wrong value of MTWO variable, it was 2, there was another variable called TWO which also had value of 2. It was fixed a few months later w

by agilob 5y ago

RedHat once committed wrong value of MTWO variable, it was 2, there was another variable called TWO which also had value of 2. It was fixed a few months later with a commit like "change value of MTWO to -2".Sorry, but can't find it find now

saagarjha 5y ago
Perhaps they should have deleted that variable…
- nitrogen 5y ago
  While externalizing repeated constants can be useful (e.g. defining PI_4 for a math routine that uses pi / 4 a dozen times), taken to an extreme like that it leads to more bugs, not fewer.