From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 28 18:37:16 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA02542 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 18:37:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cheddar.netmonger.net (cheddar.netmonger.net [209.54.21.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA02528 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 18:37:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@cheddar.netmonger.net) Received: (from chris@localhost) by cheddar.netmonger.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA26550; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 21:37:11 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <19990128213707.A25313@netmonger.net> Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 21:37:10 -0500 From: Christopher Masto To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: btokup().. patch to STYLE(9) (fwd) References: <199901290225.NAA16113@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199901290225.NAA16113@godzilla.zeta.org.au>; from Bruce Evans on Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 01:25:07PM +1100 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 01:25:07PM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: > >yeah but not a SINGLE person has said to not commit the patch to style(9) > > Of course I object. My mail system appears to have accidentally deleted your excellent and well-considered reasons for not allowing style(9) to say "it's OK to use extra braces or parenthesis when it makes your code more comprehensible". Perhaps you could repeat it? > >so I'm going to do it later tonight.. > > If you commit it, then I will back it out. This list is getting almost as bad as perl5-porters. -- Christopher Masto Director of Operations NetMonger Communications chris@netmonger.net info@netmonger.net http://www.netmonger.net "Good tools allow users to do stupid things." -- Clay Shirky To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message