Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 12:24:58 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/tail forward.c read.c reverse.c tail Message-ID: <20001204122458.A46610@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20001204202406.A64100@lucifer.bart.nl>; from asmodai@FreeBSD.ORG on Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 08:24:06PM %2B0100 References: <200012031705.eB3H5ke30393@freefall.freebsd.org> <XFMail.001204105855.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20001204202406.A64100@lucifer.bart.nl>
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On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 08:24:06PM +0100, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote:
> So effectively the register keyword doesn't serve any purpose anymore
> nowadays.
Correct.
> What would be the point in leaving it in?
REDUCE THE DIFFs. Maybe I am the only one that often goes and reads
diffs and logs back to the very beginning.. but if the change is a NOP,
why make it? What is this new Young Turks movement to totally change
style(9)?? One of the big advantages of FreeBSD is the code in a
*single* place, following a rather *standard* layout. This really
improves the readability of the code base.
> Also, I am actively working on the tail source code in order to fix up
> some of its weirdness. Just committing things, which IMHO (after
> consulting a bit with markm and eivind about standard issues) are not
> needed in today's world anymore.
Why don't you talk to others about it too rather than just ones that
strongly back *your* opinion? Please consider listening to the Gray
Beards. (and yes I own both the C89, C99, and C++ standards)
--
-- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX
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