From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 29 07:24:30 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA26944 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 07:24:30 -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 HAA26929 for ; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 07:24:26 -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 IAA26063; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 08:24:21 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id IAA06015; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 08:24:20 -0700 Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 08:24:20 -0700 Message-Id: <199901291524.IAA06015@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: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: btokup().. patch to STYLE(9) (fwd) In-Reply-To: <19990129004749.A8899@netmonger.net> References: <199901290326.OAA22743@godzilla.zeta.org.au> <19990128230223.A1973@netmonger.net> <199901290439.VAA03999@mt.sri.com> <19990129004749.A8899@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 > As for noise, there are situations where excess punctuation is just > noise, and there are situations that benefit from more than the bare > minumum of decorations. Anyone doing kernel programming ought to know > the difference..... And that is where we disagree. Style is religion, and one man's 'too much' is another's 'too little'. Obviously what you think is a minimum is different than what I think from the conversation, so is your way 'more right' than me. Because 'consistency' is the most import 'readability' factor in source code (MHO), keeping it consistant is most important in large software projects. I've seen what happens when everyone uses their own style, and it doesn't work. By making it obvious (as Style does) where the line is, there is no room for ambiguity. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message