Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 04:50:56 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> Cc: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Style fixups for proc.h Message-ID: <20030202025056.GA19433@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <200302020031.h120VlBO031192@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> References: <200302012315.h11NFVaX028348@grimreaper.grondar.org> <200302020002.TAA24089@warspite.cnchost.com> <200302020031.h120VlBO031192@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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On 2003-02-01 19:31, Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> wrote: > <<On Sat, 01 Feb 2003 16:02:57 -0800, Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> said: > > I can't see what actual error is avoided by this warning. > > My personal opinion, which is different from what style(9) recommends, > is that parameter names should be omitted for all functions, EXCEPT > those with ambiguous parameter types. This is what I am almost inclined to agree with too. But then, headers are one of the sources of information for newbie programmers too. I have learned a lot of stuff by reading headers and not having names in any prototype would arguably make it harder to use the prototypes of functions in headers to learn things :-/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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