Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2020 21:53:48 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> Cc: Kristof Provost <kp@freebsd.org>, Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>, 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: <CANCZdfo0R6LDB_VVxO1rMxFkQ6ygCCFioWbiMoFJE0KL5hY46w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <8948411d5bb0ab7ffae4c9cba06bda7b8943e0cd.camel@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> <8948411d5bb0ab7ffae4c9cba06bda7b8943e0cd.camel@freebsd.org>
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On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 8:33 PM Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 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, a=
s
> > > 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=E2=80=99s 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.
>
We should definitely just change the rules. There's no point in
prohibiting it. Contributors have already voted with their feet
diff --git a/share/man/man9/style.9 b/share/man/man9/style.9
index 4e801bbcbe70..fd23d573eb00 100644
--- a/share/man/man9/style.9
+++ b/share/man/man9/style.9
@@ -592,8 +592,6 @@ not
Parts of a
.Ic for
loop may be left empty.
-Do not put declarations
-inside blocks unless the routine is unusually complicated.
.Bd -literal
for (; cnt < 15; cnt++) {
stmt1;
Although the block doesn't start until { so int i; in the commit
technically doesn't violate this rule. We violate it in dozens of other
ways than this.
Warner
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