Oxbow code: Difference between revisions

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Such code is normally removed unless sufficiently amusing or educational.

Similarly, variables and data structures can be left around after the last code that used them has gone, though these are more commonly called [[unused variables|unused]] or [[unreferenced variable]]s.

The term is taken by analogy with [[oxbow lake]]s which are formed in nature when

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(from

[http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/gnash/server/asobj/Global.cpp?rev=1.46&root=gnash&view=markup gnash/server/asobj/Global.cpp 1.46])

<source lang="cppCpp">

static void

as_global_escape(const fn_call& fn)

{

// List of chars we must convert to escape sequences

const string hexdigitsstrHexDigits = "0123456789ABCDEF";

string inputstrInput = fn.arg(0).to_string();

URL::encode(inputstrInput);

fn.result->set_string(inputstrInput.c_str());

}

</source>

In this, "hexdigits" is oxbow code (or oxbow data).

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