Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 09:46:07 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@hub.freebsd.org>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Jun Kuriyama <kuriyama@sky.rim.or.jp>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cc-mode configuration for KNF Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911020941220.328-100000@picnic.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <xzpogdde0ny.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On 2 Nov 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> writes: > > I wasn't questioning your taste; I just dislike that style a great deal, > > and since my own is very neat (readable, repeatable) also, I don't like > > being forced to write to that style. I think the benefit (if one *does* > > keep to a clear style, just not *that* one) is very questionable. > > > > I think keeping to a clear, readable style is quite important; I think > > keeping to *your* version of that style is xenophobic. > > *cough* *cough* > > and you *don't* see a contradiction in your mail? > > Anyway, what's important about coding style isn't so much aesthetics > as consistency and predictability. Maybe I should have said *one* instead of *your*, I meant that keeping to a clear style is important, but keeping the entire codebase to a single style is far overly stuffy. Inside one file, the style has to be the same, anything else would drive you crazy, but across files, I don't think that's defensible. > > DES > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include C programming, Electronics, 213 Lakeside Dr. Apt. T-1 | communications, and signal processing. Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic.mat.net: FreeBSD-current(i386) and (301) 220-2114 | jaunt.mat.net : FreeBSD-current(Alpha) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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