From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 28 21:29:27 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA23420 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 21:29:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA23411 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 21:29:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id PAA29407; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 15:59:12 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.2/8.9.0) id PAA15170; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 15:59:11 +1030 (CST) Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 15:59:11 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: John Birrell Cc: julian@whistle.com, bde@zeta.org.au, chris@netmonger.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: btokup().. patch to STYLE(9) (fwd) Message-ID: <19990129155911.Q8473@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990129152838.L8473@freebie.lemis.com> <199901290526.QAA12656@cimlogic.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <199901290526.QAA12656@cimlogic.com.au>; from John Birrell on Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 04:26:53PM +1100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 29 January 1999 at 16:26:53 +1100, John Birrell wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: >> I don't think they're a good idea. Sure, I don't like style(9), but >> if we're going to overhaul it, we should do it properly. Given the >> diversity of opinion expressed every time anybody has tried the >> smallest change, I don't see that happening, so why don't we just >> forget the whole thing? > > Do you mean "forget changing style(9)" or "forget style(9) and > delete it"? I think you probably mean the former, despite the fact > that I was hoping for the latter. 8-) Yes, of course the former. > I can image a new subscriber to this list reading a few of these > messages and thinking: "why would I want to use an OS developed by > these people?". I'm sure they might. But they'd be wrong. I do believe that maintaining a coherent style is a Good Thing. I just dislike the particular style, but since it doesn't significantly lower my standard of living, I put up with it :-) Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message