From owner-cvs-all Thu Mar 7 13:14:32 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31AE737B41B; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 13:14:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from caddis.yogotech.com (caddis.yogotech.com [206.127.123.130]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA25726; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 14:14:14 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by caddis.yogotech.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g27LEDi01068; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 14:14:13 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate) From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15495.55333.300370.385829@caddis.yogotech.com> Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 14:14:13 -0700 To: Mark Murray Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/rwall rwall.c In-Reply-To: <200203072038.g27KcGRV064577@grimreaper.grondar.org> References: <20020307120711.A62212@dragon.nuxi.com> <200203072038.g27KcGRV064577@grimreaper.grondar.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.96 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > > This is by *NO* means more readable than the old code! > > > > > > I guess this comes down to an opinion, right? :-) > > > > There seems to be more NO's than agreements with you in this case. BUT > > that does not matter. We've operated under the "don't change things w/o > > a good reason" to (1) settle cases of opinion like this. And (2) because > > changing things too much throws away over a decade of tested proven code. > > This is something that should not be taken lightly. We hold our age up > > all the time as one of our advantages over Linux. However these > > WARNS/lint runs are making our code as volatile as the GNU stuff we snub. > > There is no clear direction in the above statement, although it has > elements of truth from several disparate arguments. > > "Good reason" == "code rot". Code can not 'rot'. If it works, it works. All the rest of the arguments are based on the invalid assumption. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message