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Date: Sun, 21 Dec 1997 12:09:12 +1030
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
Cc: dyson@freebsd.org, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>,
        gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu, julian@whistle.com, bde@freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: Bruce vandalism again
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On Sat, Dec 20, 1997 at 06:23:41PM -0700, Nate Williams wrote:
>
> John, I think you're making a big issue about a non-issue.  The reason
> the code in FreeBSD is using K&R style is because it was written before
> ANSI.  It hasn't been modified to ANSI style simply because it hasn't
> needed to.  Tell your design reviewers that the 'old' code is still more
> robust/effecient and just as functional (if not more) than the 'new'
> ANSI code,

So far, so good.

> and that changing code to have ANSI functions just to have ANSI
> functions is simply a waste of time.

We could debate this (I'm not going to), but don't you think it's at
least as much a waste of time to change prototypes to K&R?

Greg