From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 28 20:39:46 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA17588 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 20:39:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA17579 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 20:39:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA21611; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 21:39:37 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id VAA03999; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 21:39:36 -0700 Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 21:39:36 -0700 Message-Id: <199901290439.VAA03999@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Christopher Masto Cc: Bruce Evans , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: btokup().. patch to STYLE(9) (fwd) In-Reply-To: <19990128230223.A1973@netmonger.net> References: <199901290326.OAA22743@godzilla.zeta.org.au> <19990128230223.A1973@netmonger.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > The apparent infallability of code and historical documents anyone > tries to update suggests that the Pope was involved with CSRG. No, but in general the combined experience of the CSRG folks is greater than most of the programmers here. > Encouraging unreadable code is something I find highly questionable. I find the KNF style highly readable. As a matter of fact, I find the extra parentheses *often* to be a bunch of noise. And, as Bruce implied, if you don't know your precedence rules, you shouldn't be doing kernel programming. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message