On Thursday, 28 January 1999 at 21:43:41 -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Friday, 29 January 1999 at 16:26:53 +1100, John Birrell wrote: >> >> 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 :-) > > I know that there are times when I've been working on code, and that I've > added parens to help me (who now understands the code) feel comfortable > that I will understand it next time I'm visiting it, and when I've > committed it someone rips out the parens with the comment.. "make it > KNF". > > Now if I'm working on some piece of code and feel that it could do with > some parens then surely KNF should be flexible enough to allow them.. > > I don't know how many bugs have ben revealed by adding parens and braces.. > I know that one of the first things I do when looking for a bug is add as > many as I can in parts of the code that are suspect. > > It's amazing how often it shows up the problem. > > KNF is propogating what I consider to be bad practice, and that annoys me. > I'm happy to say that often they should be dropped, but to FORCE the > dropping of braces etc. with no regard to readbility is too much.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not disagreeing with you. I'm just saying I don't think it's worth fighting for. If you really want to fight, fight for a complete reform, so that the code looks like the way I prefer :-) Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger g...@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
