Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 16:06:07 -0600 From: Nate Williams <nate@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: davidg@root.com, hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Coding style ( was Re: why is this not a bug in namei?) Message-ID: <199509192206.QAA26033@rocky.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: <199509192156.OAA10858@phaeton.artisoft.com> References: <Pine.BSD/.3.91.950919144400.11169r-100000@schizo.cdsnet.net> <199509192156.OAA10858@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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Terry Lambert writes: > > The real question is does this have to be bashed around on hackers... > > Seems like a basically religious issue, which deserves it's own majordomo > > list... > > No, this is Nate taking up David's Ad Homin attack on my coding style, > which obfuscated the original issue of 16 bit Unicode characters in the > kernel. > > The question "how do I determine program flow when I see a goto?" is a > stupid question. No, the *real* question is: "If you write code in a style that is un-acceptable to those folks who will commit/maintain that code in the FreeBSD source tree, is the time it takes to re-write or understand the code worth it?" Note, maintainenance of the code is not and should not be on person's job, so more than one person must be able to understand the code. The VM system is a great example. We have two people actively writing and maintaining the code, so I never have to look at it. :) Nate
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