From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 28 17:57:49 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA27319 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 17:57:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA27311 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 17:57:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA25137; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 17:54:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpde25133; Fri Jan 29 01:54:41 1999 Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 17:54:34 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Mike Smith cc: Matthew Dillon , Archie Cobbs , Nate Williams , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: btokup().. patch to STYLE(9) (fwd) In-Reply-To: <199901290142.RAA01512@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG yeah but not a SINGLE person has said to not commit the patch to style(9) so I'm going to do it later tonight.. (It doesn't make extra braces MANDATORY but it does ALLOW them.) julian (if this doesn't bring some NEYs I'll be amazed..) On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > Beyond that it's pretty much just &/| and &&/|| precedences. I personally > > *never* liked the fact that C gave & and | ( and && and || ) differentl > > precedences. IMHO, the arithmatic-vs-shift parenthesization is something > > I've *always* done myself, so I don't mind those warnings either. > > This comes straight from elementary boolean algebra. Not doing this > would be unthinkable. > > -- > \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith > \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au > \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org > \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message