Em sáb., 21 de ago. de 2021 às 12:02, Andrew Dunstan
escreveu:
>
> On 8/20/21 12:30 PM, Ranier Vilela wrote:
> >
> >
> > There is a reason why GMs Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie made the
> > C89, less buggy.
> > IMHO C99 makes it easy to make more mistakes.
> > One more step and we won't even
On 8/20/21 12:30 PM, Ranier Vilela wrote:
>
>
> There is a reason why GMs Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie made the
> C89, less buggy.
> IMHO C99 makes it easy to make more mistakes.
> One more step and we won't even need to declare a variable.
>
>
I've used both styles in different languages
Em sex., 20 de ago. de 2021 às 12:29, Jelte Fennema <
jelte.fenn...@microsoft.com> escreveu:
> However, even if such an idea were to get the green light, I think I would
> take the obligatory regex jokes seriously, and instead use something like
> srcML [0] and do the analysis and modification on
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> However, even if such an idea were to get the green light, I think I would
> take the obligatory regex jokes seriously, and instead use something like
> srcML [0] and do t
ust 19, 2021 20:57
To: Chapman Flack
Cc: Ranier Vilela ; Jelte Fennema
; pgsql-hack...@postgresql.org
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Allow declaration after statement and reformat code to
use it
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On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 10:34:04AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Ranier Vilela writes:
>> C needs readability, not fewer lines.
>> Aside from horrible code, it doesn't improve 0.1% on anything.
>> I think it's a bad idea and I'm strongly against it.
>
> Same here. We have thirty-ish years worth of co
On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 11:40:44AM -0400, Chapman Flack wrote:
> I'm in sympathy with all of those points. I've never believed that the
> arbitrary separation of declaration from use that was forced by C < 99
> made anything more readable. If the project were started now from scratch,
> I would be
Chapman Flack writes:
> I'm in sympathy with all of those points. I've never believed that the
> arbitrary separation of declaration from use that was forced by C < 99
> made anything more readable. If the project were started now from scratch,
> I would be all in favor of declaring at first use.
On 08/19/21 09:38, Ranier Vilela wrote:
>> 2. Declarations are closer to the actual usage. This is advised by the
>> "Code Complete" book [2] and has the following advantages:
>>a. This limits variable scope to what is necessary. Which in turn makes
>> the mental model you have to keep of a fun
Ranier Vilela writes:
> Em qui., 19 de ago. de 2021 às 08:50, Jelte Fennema <
> jelte.fenn...@microsoft.com> escreveu:
>> ## Why would we want this?
>> 1. It removes 23328 lines of code that don't have any impact on how the
>> code behaves [1]. This is roughly 2.7% of all the lines of code in the
Em qui., 19 de ago. de 2021 às 08:50, Jelte Fennema <
jelte.fenn...@microsoft.com> escreveu:
> ## What is this?
>
> It's a draft patch that replaces code like this:
> ```c
> pg_file_unlink(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
> {
> char *filename;
> requireSuperuser();
> filename = convert_and_check_filename(PG_GE
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