From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 1 22:02:27 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C5E416A41F for ; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 22:02:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from postoffice.vicor-nb.com (postoffice.vicor.com [69.26.56.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C53843D46 for ; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 22:02:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by postoffice.vicor-nb.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 547FA4CE972; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 15:02:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from postoffice.vicor-nb.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (postoffice.vicor-nb.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 31019-03; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 15:02:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [208.206.78.97] (julian.vicor-nb.com [208.206.78.97]) by postoffice.vicor-nb.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B73074CE969; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 15:02:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <42EE9BF1.70409@elischer.org> Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 15:02:25 -0700 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050629 X-Accept-Language: en, hu MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Julian Elischer References: <64511.68.95.232.238.1122917387.squirrel@68.95.232.238> <200508011355.19274.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20050801180254.GB1176@beatrix.daedalusnetworks.priv> <20050801181014.GA14567@elvis.mu.org> <52275.68.95.232.238.1122920940.squirrel@68.95.232.238> <42EE98E2.7020102@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <42EE98E2.7020102@elischer.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at postoffice.vicor.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [patch] rc.d cleanup X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 22:02:27 -0000 lets try that again without most of the typos. Julian Elischer wrote: > > > diz@linuxpowered.com wrote: > >>> Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >>> >>> >>>> > [...] > >>> Thirded. I far prefer the bigger C-like if statements and think this >>> patch is a huge code churn for what is basically code obfuscation. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Maxime >>> >> >> >> >> Well I certainly respect the opinions, but respectfully when has the use >> of && and || become obfuscation? >> > > I work on a lot of shell code and I prefer the "spelled out the long > way" > approach. > > i.e. I prefer > > if [blah] > then > if [blah2] > then > etc.... > > It's just easier to get it right in my opinion. > Remember, when there are 100 sets of fingers in the picture then > you have to code to the "bloody obvious" standard because sometimes > people > have to change scripts to handle some external change, and thay may or > may not] > be shell syntax experts. > > > There is a lot that needs cleanup.. > I think this is not one of them.. > I do appreciate however the thought and time you have spent. > > > julian > >> -Jon >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >> > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"