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Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 01:24:59 -0500
To: Paul Richards <paul@originative.co.uk>, arch@freebsd.org
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At 11:46 PM +0000 2/1/05, Paul Richards wrote:
>
>Surely the issue should be, if you're a good coder and you adhere
>to the adopted style, which style is more likely to result in
>maintainable code.

I suspect that if you're a good coder, or if you have a bunch of
good coders looking over your shoulder (like we do here...), then
the current style is just as likely to result in good, maintainable
code as the localized-variable style that you are proposing.  Thus,
there does not seem to be any compelling reason to change the style.

Just MO, of course.

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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu