On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 1:32 PM, Conrad Meyer <c...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 12:01 PM, Eric van Gyzen <e...@vangyzen.net> > wrote: > > On 01/17/2018 16:40, Gleb Smirnoff wrote: > >> Yeah, style is sacred, but is there a single person on Earth who would > >> not agree that moving variables from smaller blocks to function block > >> reduces readability of the code? > > > > I agree that it reduces the readability. Not only that, it also > > encourages real bugs by allowing access to the variable when it does not > > make sense. > > I think the right way to propose this kind of policy change is to get > agreement on how style(9) should be modified — not arbitrarily go > against style(9) in some files. The proposed change may be somewhat > contentious and it might be a good exercise to go through the FreeBSD > Community Process. > > I might separate these two concerns: > > 1. Allowing local / block scoped variables > 2. Allowing C99 for loop initial declarations > > But I could see the argument that (2) is just a boring subset of (1). > Tell me again where #1/#2 are disallowed? I can't seem to find that in style(9), except by a weak example of there being no examples of #1 or #2. Warner _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
