Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Bear with an old man like me. I am used to the habit that variables > get decleared at the begin of a block, not in the middle of it. When > searching for the declaration of a variable, I find it a major PITA if > I have to scan the whole source file instea dof just looking at the > first few lines of a block.
This is why I use an advanced programmer's editor that brings me to the definition of the variable under the cursor with a single keystroke. > Not the compiler, but humans like me. I have just a small window of > lines I can really focus on, and the smaller a block of code > (including the needed variable declarations), the easier I get the > impression I understand it. In this case, it would be easier for you if the variable were declared next to the code that uses it. >> This is what we do today, and I think it's ugly. > > It is ugly, but much less ugly than variable declarations right in the > middle of 200 lines of code. This is where I disagree. -- Timur Tabi Linux kernel developer at Freescale _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
