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+Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2014 19:24:00 -0400\r
+From: Austin Clements <aclements@csail.mit.edu>\r
+To: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/11] lib: Internal support for querying and creating\r
+ ghost messages\r
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+Quoth David Bremner on Oct 05 at 10:30 am:\r
+> Austin Clements <aclements@csail.mit.edu> writes:\r
+> \r
+> > + message->flags &= ~(1 << NOTMUCH_MESSAGE_FLAG_GHOST);\r
+> \r
+> What do you think about using bit set / clear / read macros? I don't\r
+> insist, but I wonder if it would make this part more readable.\r
+\r
+I'm used to reading this stuff, so either way is fine with me. Do we\r
+have bit set / clear / read macros?\r
+\r
+> > + else if (*i == "Tghost")\r
+> > + message->flags |= (1 << NOTMUCH_MESSAGE_FLAG_GHOST);\r
+> > + else\r
+> \r
+> It makes me faintly unhappy to have the prefix hardcoded here.\r
+> Not sure if there is a sensible solution.\r
+\r
+I agree, but I also don't want to construct the test string every time\r
+or deconstruct the term string every time. I could move the "T"\r
+prefix string to a #define and use that both here and in\r
+BOOLEAN_PREFIX_INTERNAL, but that solution may be worse than the\r
+problem. What do you think?\r