>> The style(9)-changes were absolutely necessary and it's better to do this >> as early as possible instead of waiting and waiting until it's too late >> and you have a really big number of patches for a given program. > > The thing I dislike most about the style changes is the alignment of > variable and function definitions, and the reason I don't like > alignment-based definitions is because the moment you need to add a new > variable or function that has a column that's one character longer than > the existing definitions, you end up with a diff that modifies a bunch > of a lines that are not necessarily related to the new feature. >
I agree with Eric here. I don't see the point of variables alignment. Regards,