From owner-cvs-all Mon Dec 4 12:25: 6 2000 From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 4 12:25:01 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEC4F37B401; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 12:25:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA10637; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 12:25:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eB4KOxo46670; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 12:24:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 12:24:58 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven 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> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200012031705.eB3H5ke30393@freefall.freebsd.org> <20001204202406.A64100@lucifer.bart.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001204202406.A64100@lucifer.bart.nl>; from asmodai@FreeBSD.ORG on Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 08:24:06PM +0100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: obrien@NUXI.com Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message