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Re: Consensus: Remove form-feeds?
- From: Nix <nix at esperi dot org dot uk>
- To: OndÅej BÃlka <neleai at seznam dot cz>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 14:55:42 +0100
- Subject: Re: Consensus: Remove form-feeds?
- References: <20130606150447 dot GA5081 at domone dot kolej dot mff dot cuni dot cz>
On 6 Jun 2013, OndÅej BÃlka spake thusly:
> My opinion is that as they serve no purpose other that having ^L in
> code we should remove them.
But they do serve a purpose, though that purpose is less than it once
was.
Emacs's narrow-to-page can use them, so you can use them to split up the
codebase into functional units larger or smaller than functions, if you
want. And there *may* be editors -- in the past, Emacs was one -- that
have limited understanding of the semantics of C such that they can
split on page breaks but not on function boundaries. (This may be purely
historical by this point.)
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