Date: Sun, 2 Jun 1996 10:34:14 +0200 (MET DST) From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Chat) Subject: Re: Indentation styles Message-ID: <199606020834.KAA15734@allegro.lemis.de> In-Reply-To: <5435.833388991@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at May 29, 96 09:56:31 am
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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
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