[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] xml docs fix and mpst:// docs

Diego Biurrun diego at biurrun.de
Sun Jul 4 16:59:52 CEST 2004


Ivan Kalvachev writes:
> At first I wondered why are you going to scrap another option, break
> some scripts and commit mass suicide^W^W cosmetic change in mplayer.
> Then I read what it should do and agree that the name is simply missleading.
> 
> But why not name the function "dont-use-stdin", "no-use-stdin"
> and keep the variable as it is?

Because IMHO that name is not any less confusing than before and
changing option names but keeping variable names is an excellent
recipe for code obfuscation.

Diego




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