Sept. 27, 2005
4:59 p.m.
Guido van Rossum wrote:
It has always been my choice to *only* use XXX. I hope there aren't any developers contributing to the Python core who use any others?
[Python-2.4.1]$ grep FIXME */*.c */*.py | wc -l 12 [Python-2.4.1]$ grep TODO */*.c */*.py | wc -l 17 [Python-2.4.1]$ grep XXX */*.c */*.py | wc -l 525
I honestly don't see much of a point for distinguishing different types; these are for humans to read and review, and different tags just makes it harder to grep.
I tend to use FIXME for smelly code, and a collection of TODO:s at the top of the file for things that someone should work on some day... (which explains some, but not all, of the non-XXX:es above...) </F>