From owner-cvs-all Thu Mar 7 14:15:45 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 1E7BA37B400; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 14:15:38 -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 PAA28233; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 15:15:35 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by caddis.yogotech.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g27MFSS01799; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 15:15:28 -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: <15495.59008.192220.654176@caddis.yogotech.com> Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 15:15:28 -0700 To: Mark Murray Cc: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams), cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/rwall rwall.c In-Reply-To: <200203072205.g27M5MRV015704@grimreaper.grondar.org> References: <15495.56353.158608.817241@caddis.yogotech.com> <200203072205.g27M5MRV015704@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 > void main(){printf("hello world\n");} > > also produces correct code and runs, but creates problems during > compiler and library upgrades. It his hard to read, and is > unpredictable in silly ways. What problems (details)? Why it it hard to read? It is trivial to read and understand. > > You're changing things for the sake of change, and unfortunately > > NO! I am not. If I wanted to do that, I'd do something dumbass like > indent(1) all the code. It seems to me to be almost the same thing, but at least with indent, bugs are introduced. :( > I object to obfuscated C (although the IOCCC is fun), and I think that > code should be well-written and _safe_. Now I, on the other hand, like obfuscated code. (*sheesh*) *EVERYONE* likes well-written/safe code. Running it through lint and fixing errors doesn't necessarily provide you with either feature. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message