Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 15:59:11 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> Cc: julian@whistle.com, bde@zeta.org.au, chris@netmonger.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: btokup().. patch to STYLE(9) (fwd) Message-ID: <19990129155911.Q8473@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199901290526.QAA12656@cimlogic.com.au>; from John Birrell on Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 04:26:53PM %2B1100 References: <19990129152838.L8473@freebie.lemis.com> <199901290526.QAA12656@cimlogic.com.au>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Friday, 29 January 1999 at 16:26:53 +1100, John Birrell wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: >> I don't think they're a good idea. Sure, I don't like style(9), but >> if we're going to overhaul it, we should do it properly. Given the >> diversity of opinion expressed every time anybody has tried the >> smallest change, I don't see that happening, so why don't we just >> forget the whole thing? > > Do you mean "forget changing style(9)" or "forget style(9) and > delete it"? I think you probably mean the former, despite the fact > that I was hoping for the latter. 8-) Yes, of course the former. > I can image a new subscriber to this list reading a few of these > messages and thinking: "why would I want to use an OS developed by > these people?". I'm sure they might. But they'd be wrong. I do believe that maintaining a coherent style is a Good Thing. I just dislike the particular style, but since it doesn't significantly lower my standard of living, I put up with it :-) Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?19990129155911.Q8473>