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Date:      Fri, 29 Jan 1999 13:28:53 +0100
From:      Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Sheldon Hearn <axl@iafrica.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: btokup().. patch to STYLE(9) (fwd)
Message-ID:  <19990129132853.B34859@bitbox.follo.net>
In-Reply-To: <92584.917604304@axl.noc.iafrica.com>; from Sheldon Hearn on Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 12:05:04PM %2B0200
References:  <19990129200123.I8473@freebie.lemis.com> <92584.917604304@axl.noc.iafrica.com>

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On Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 12:05:04PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, 29 Jan 1999 20:01:23 +1030, Greg Lehey wrote:
> 
> > > I can't imagine how unnecessary parens are going to improve
> > > "readability" for anyone who knows his/her operator precedence.
> > 
> > What about the others?
> 
> I'd like to know that people who don't know operator precedence are
> leaving the kernel code alone, eh? :-)

I know my operator precedence.  I still often find that using extra
parentheses make code more readable.  I don't do it in FreeBSD, but I
regularly use more parentheses than strictly necessary for non-FreeBSD
code.

I also am in favour of the change to style(9).

Eivind.

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