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Date:      Sun, 22 Mar 2009 14:32:13 -0700
From:      Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org>, marius@alchemy.franken.de, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Christoph Mallon <christoph.mallon@gmx.de>, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r190098 - in head/sys/sparc64: fhc sparc64
Message-ID:  <49C6AE5D.9090208@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <49C68062.2000407@elischer.org>
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Julian Elischer wrote:
> Christoph Mallon wrote:
>> Andriy Gapon schrieb:
>  >> compliants about style (9)
>  > agreement and disagreement.
> 
> basically almost every single committer who comes into the group
> usually starts up by objecting to one part or another of the style
> guide. ... The style guide IS open to change but not by any individual
> contributer.  Most of the things in there are there for a reason that
> is non obvious.   Sometimes they are arbitrary.

The most important style question when contributing
to *any* existing project is "does it match?"
Consistency contributes far more to readability
than any other style issue, especially on very
large bodies of code.

Tim



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