On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 14:52 -0800, Sam Leffler wrote: > Christoph Mallon wrote: > > Steve Kargl schrieb: > >> Stylistic changes (including whitespace changes) are hard on > >> the source repository and are to be avoided without good reason. > > > > Yet another anachronism in style(9). > > (Does that sentence even mean what I think it means? Somehow it sounds > > like "there is no good reason, but avoid them anyway" instead of > > "avoid them if you have no good reason".) > > > > > And for the N'th time I will say: style is guideline and not a > contract. The day people arbitrarily change code simply because some > cabal decided where spaces should go is the day people will stop > contributing. It's all fine and well to make style consistent when > you're working in an area of the code (and can verify your changes) but > knob polishing is just code churn and in my experience is > counter-productive. Spend your time and effort on fixing real problems; > god knows we've got enough of 'em... > > Sam >
Maybe prepend 'Mere' to the beginning of that sentence in style(9)? I am amused by the thread on stylistic changes to style(9). /me ducks! -- Coleman Kane
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