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Date:      Wed, 4 Aug 2010 10:27:42 +0100
From:      Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk>
To:        Jamie Gritton <jamie@freebsd.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, pluknet <pluknet@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: [patch] big whitespace cleanup in sys/kern/*
Message-ID:  <69C0051A-254C-4535-8151-F336609D9E6D@gid.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <4C5858BF.7030303@FreeBSD.org>
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Hi,

On 3 Aug 2010, at 18:58, Jamie Gritton wrote:

> I always understood that is was a style error *not* to have at least
> some whitespace before a label, that only top-level objects should be
> pushed all the way to the left column. Style(9) appears to be silent =
on
> this issue.

Labels are special in that their scope is the enclosing function (not =
the enclosing block). Hanging them to the left emphasises this.

--
Bob Bishop
rb@gid.co.uk







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