+----[ Doug Rabson ]---------------------------------------------
| On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
| >
| > The reason I'm interested in this (now tiresome) thread is that I'd much
| > rather have to read
| >
| > /*
| > * Bail out if the time left to next transaction is less than
| > * the duration of the previous transaction.
| > */
| > if (t % u - n % u < d % u) {
| >
| > than
| >
| > if (((t % u) - (n % u)) < (d % u)) {
|
| This is a strawman. The original expression is perfectly fine (by my
| rules). One could make a case for:
|
| if ((t % u) - (n % u) < d % u)
It also does not imply perfection. I don't think being a 'kernel
programmer' confers any more perfection than any other type of
programmer. It also does not imply immortality.
All this about "I don't need parens/braces/whitespace, and anyone that
does shouldn't touch my/the/kernel code" is egotistcal elitist crap.
The only arguments I've seen for less 'punctuation' are
a) "I" don't need them
b) "I" don't like what it looks like with them
c) There might be bugs introduced due to parens.
Well a and b are crap, and c is no worse off than we are now, since
there seems to be bugs caused by a lack of them.
As it is you don't have to use the extra punctuation if you don't
want to, it was proposed as *optional*. If you don't like code with
the punctuation, don't work on it (or change it back to whatever you
like when you next have to work on it).
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