Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 13:49:47 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@FreeBSD.ORG> To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG 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 Subject: Re: Bruce vandalism again Message-ID: <199712201849.NAA00314@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <199712201842.NAA00267@dyson.iquest.net> from "John S. Dyson" at "Dec 20, 97 01:42:57 pm"
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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.
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