From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 29 09:21:13 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA12014 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 09:21:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA12009 for ; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 09:21:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA15719; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 09:16:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from s204m82.isp.whistle.com(207.76.204.82) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpdq15712; Fri Jan 29 17:16:49 1999 Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 09:16:46 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer X-Sender: julian@s204m82.isp.whistle.com To: Sheldon Hearn cc: Greg Lehey , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: btokup().. patch to STYLE(9) (fwd) In-Reply-To: <92584.917604304@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > Giving folks the go-ahead to use parens as a form of documentation is > misguided and will end in tears. MHO. > Giving people the ability to quickly prove that the code matches the comments when they're upto their behinds in alligators is not going to end in tears. Sometimes there are more important things to worry about than proving one'es programming studdliness. julian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message