From owner-freebsd-current Sat Dec 20 10:50:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA04052 for current-outgoing; Sat, 20 Dec 1997 10:50:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA04019; Sat, 20 Dec 1997 10:49:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA00314; Sat, 20 Dec 1997 13:49:47 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) Message-Id: <199712201849.NAA00314@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: Bruce vandalism again In-Reply-To: <199712201842.NAA00267@dyson.iquest.net> from "John S. Dyson" at "Dec 20, 97 01:42:57 pm" To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 13:49:47 -0500 (EST) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, nate@mt.sri.com, dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu, julian@whistle.com, bde@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk John S. Dyson said: > Jordan K. Hubbard said: > > > Sorry, but most of us are real-world programmers, who try to keep our > > > code ANSI. (Then we have to switch into the mode: Oh yeah, we are still > > > > You guys aren't even discussing the same subject here - is it any > > wonder there's an argument? John, please go back and read this thread > > again because you've become lost in the weeds of a non-existant ANSI > > vs non-ANSI debate. This is a self-consistency debate here and you're > > bringing the wrong debating points to the wrong argument. :) > > > It should be self-consistant, moving towards ANSI by 3.0. > Gang, This is my opinion, but I don't feel well, and my mood is showing. I really don't care that much if we are ANSI or K&R, but we should be consistant. I think that there should be tolerance for code-in-motion, like we generally have, but it should be up to the committer (maybe with prodding from BDE or anyone) to bring the code up to standard, in a reasonable amount of time. It is a mistake to forget about the rest of the world, but all-in-all, of all of the things that we have to worry about, our adherance to support of K&R isn't that big a deal. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig.