[TUHS] Whence did "XXX" come about?

Warren Toomey wkt at tuhs.org
Fri Sep 4 06:28:31 AEST 2020


On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 03:32:58AM +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> For yonks I've been seeing "XXX" as a flag to mean "needs more work" or
> "look at this carefully, just in case" etc, and I use it myself.

Me too, for the same reason: the code is tricky or subtle or needs fixing.
It does tend to make my students raise their eyebrows; perhaps they have
their nanny filters turned on :-)

Cheers, Warren


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