[OE-core] still seems to be a pile of "_append +=" stuff in oe-core

Robert Yang liezhi.yang at windriver.com
Mon Nov 23 01:24:41 UTC 2015


The _append and += are different, so we need either:

var_append = " foo"
or
var_append += "foo"

for example:

var += "foo"
var = "A"

Then var will be "A".

But:
var_append += "foo"
var = "A"

Then var will be "A foo"

On 11/22/2015 08:04 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
>    i mentioned this a while back, and it *seems* that there's even more
> of this now -- the use of "_append" in conjunction with "+=", which is
> clearly(?) redundant.
>
>    one simply needs to run:
>
> $ grep -r "_append.*+=" *
>
> to see how much of that there is. sure, it doesn't hurt, but it's
> definitely not good programming practice.
>
> rday
>



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