From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Sep 28 16:31:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40EEA37B432; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 16:31:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f8SNVlu55433; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 17:31:48 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f8SNVj784249; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 17:31:45 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Message-Id: <200109282331.f8SNVj784249@harmony.village.org> To: Julian Elischer Subject: Re: Style Wars Cc: Paul Richards , John Baldwin , arch@FreeBSD.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 28 Sep 2001 17:17:12 PDT." References: Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 17:31:45 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message Julian Elischer writes: : > I think stating intent, rather than method will reduce a lot of the : > quibbling over style issues because people will understand what's being : > aimed for and won't bridle so much over dogmatic rules. : : : Not a bad idea. : : "When defining sub elements of a structure, tabs should be used : to allign the name parts so as to ease reading." : e.g. : : [example given in previous mail] : (end quote) " The difficult part in doing intent based rules is that in the past we was many style commits back and forth as different people interpreted the rules differently. The more rigid the rules, the more anybody will know if things are in compliance. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message