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Date:      Tue, 02 Feb 1999 11:43:47 -0800
From:      Fred Gilham <gilham@csl.sri.com>
To:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: btokup().. patch to STYLE(9) (fwd)
Message-ID:  <199902021943.LAA10324@csla.csl.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 28 Jan 1999 21:43:41 PST." <Pine.BSF.3.95.990128213330.11856X-100000@current1.whistle.com> 

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Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> writes:
> 
> Now if I'm working on  some piece of code and feel that it could do with
> some parens then surely KNF should be flexible enough to allow them..
> 
> I don't know how many bugs have ben revealed by adding parens and braces..
> I know that one of the first things I do when looking for a bug is add as
> many as I can in parts of the code that are suspect.
> 
> It's amazing how often it shows up the problem.
>

As someone who has made one (1) contribution to the FreeBSD kernel,
I say, go ahead and use parentheses to your heart's content.

My one contribution was a patch to the kernel and Linux emulator to
allow the Linux version of Allegro Common Lisp 4.3 to run under
FreeBSD. :-) :-)

-Fred Gilham    gilham@csl.sri.com

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