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Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 20:26:51 -0400 (EDT)
Reply-To: Mike Heffner <mheffner@vt.edu>
From: Mike Heffner <mheffner@novacoxmail.com>
To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: whois(1) patch
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	Mike Barcroft <mike@q9media.com>, Mike Heffner <mheffner@vt.edu>
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On 22-Jun-2001 David O'Brien wrote:
| On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 06:26:06PM -0400, Mike Heffner wrote:
|> On 31-May-2001 Mike Barcroft wrote:
|> |
|> | I originally made the ANSI C change to silence a warning, but is there any
|> | reason not to bring the code up to ANSI C spec?  Is it likely that anyone
|> | will need to compile whois with a K&R compiler?
|> 
|> It's not likely, but I'm not sure on what the consensus is on ANSI-fication.
|> Technically, style(9) says it shouldn't be done in this case, but people
|> (myself included) have been removing K&R support in small patches like this
|> one.
| 
| And I strongly wish you guys would *STOP* doing that.

I try to reserve it for situations where a mix of various styles have been used.
 
|> I think there was also talk of doing a full sweep to remove __P. 
| 
| Yes.  Lets plan for a sweep in 6mo. or so and make the conversion.

Yes! ;)

Mike

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