From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 5 23:42:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F66437B41A; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 23:42:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g267gMLv090229; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 08:42:22 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: "Mike Meyer" Cc: "Mike Meyer" , obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, Giorgos Keramidas , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RFC: style(9) isn't explicit about booleans for testing. In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 06 Mar 2002 01:38:06 CST." <15493.51038.957711.450030@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 08:42:22 +0100 Message-ID: <90228.1015400542@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <15493.51038.957711.450030@guru.mired.org>, "Mike Meyer" writes: >Poul-Henning Kamp types: >> In message <15493.49923.458997.98416@guru.mired.org>, "Mike Meyer" writes: >> >David O'Brien types: >> >> On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 02:08:07AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> Now, IFF the C language had a type called "boolean" that would make >> a lot of sense. > >So you're advocating that the rule be dropped. I'm advocating that the rule focus on readability rather than trying to enforce a type which doesn't exist. Type-enforcement is a task for the compiler, not for a manpage. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message