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Date:      Tue, 16 Jun 2020 20:33:10 -0600
From:      Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
To:        Kristof Provost <kp@FreeBSD.org>, Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Toomas Soome <tsoome@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r362217 - head/stand/common
Message-ID:  <8948411d5bb0ab7ffae4c9cba06bda7b8943e0cd.camel@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <E023EB92-0AC3-4AD8-A309-81AA6E07F80F@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <202006160705.05G753T4057972@repo.freebsd.org> <55903c38d363aef2a6f6d0075dd4526b86d51258.camel@freebsd.org> <CAPyFy2D1mhkxR00BGB1Ufn3PLRe%2Bb-t%2Bz_bgss=7am%2Bn3inWjw@mail.gmail.com> <E023EB92-0AC3-4AD8-A309-81AA6E07F80F@FreeBSD.org>

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On Tue, 2020-06-16 at 19:34 +0200, Kristof Provost wrote:
> On 16 Jun 2020, at 19:11, Ed Maste wrote:
> > On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 at 13:01, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > As much as I prefer doing it this way, style(9) doesn't allow for
> > > variable declarations inside a for() statement (or even inside a 
> > > local
> > > block, which is just too 1980s for me, but it is still our standard).
> > 
> > Perhaps it's time to update style(9) to at least permit these uses, as
> > we've done with the blank line at the beginning of functions with no
> > local variables, and with braces around single-line bodies.
> 
> We have 431 instances of `for (int i` in sys alone. It¢s not so much a 
> question of allowing it as acknowledging reality at this point.
> 
> Best regards,
> Kristof

Hmm, so we do.  If you weed out sys/contrib, and device drivers
contributed by vendors, the number is a lot smaller, but still big
enough that we should just change the rules I think.

-- Ian




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