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Subject: Re: Indentation styles
To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 1996 10:34:14 +0200 (MET DST)
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Jordan K. Hubbard writes:
>
>> If companies have coding style standards, why shouldn't a free OS project
>> have the same?  NetBSD, from time to time, makes KNF'ing runs through the
>
> Because we already have 200% more work to do than our volunteers can
> deal with and having endless discussions and/or wars about someone
> reformatting someone else's code is NOT the most productive use of
> everyone's time. :-)

That depends on how easy and reliable it is.  I'd guess that
reformatting the entire kernel sources with indent would take less
than a minute.  I've tried on selected files, and the result is not
identical, but it's at least as legible, and it's more in conformance
with KNF.

Greg