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To: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>
cc: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert), hackers@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject: Re: why is this not a bug in namei? 
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 23:36:03 -0700
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>> > hate the spaghetti of goto's that I've seen with your code.
>
>ok ok ok..
>can we quit on the character assasination here?
>
>ok, so we know some people don't like Terry's style..
>ok, so what..
>if he produces a useful piece of code we can still use it..
>I've seen bits of core in other people's code I don't like, and people
>have taken such a dislike to my code that they've totally reformatted it..
>ok, 
>
>now can we all take a deep breath and stop quibbling?
>
>if terry writes code, and it works, we can use it.
>anyone is permited to rewrite it if they want.. terry might get annoyed, but
>it's permitted..

   There are a few formatting issues which I probably will fix. The problem
I'm having is basically that we have a specific style that we are trying to
adhere to (surely everone can understand the readability advantages of a
single coding style - KNF), and Terry wants to add a few hundred gotos while
he rewrites everything. Yuck.
   I really wish that people would spend more time on fixing real problems
with the source code and not just changing it to fit their own non-KNF style.
It's only going to result in a lot more work later when someone has to go
back and "fix" all of it.

>it's not as if we are actually short of things to do or anything..

   How true.

-DG