Date: Sun, 16 Nov 1997 21:47:40 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A stylistic question... Message-ID: <19971116214740.JL63294@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199711120858.JAA06510@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>; from Luigi Rizzo on Nov 12, 1997 09:58:14 %2B0100 References: <199711120858.JAA06510@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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As Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> I have always wondered about this: most if not all programs, and some
> pieces of the kernel as well (e.g. userconfig.c)
> have a menu/usage function which is written like this:
>
> usage()
> {
> printf( "bla bla bla...\n" );
> printf( "bla bla bla...\n" );
> printf( "bla bla bla...\n" );
> ...
> printf( "bla bla bla...\n" );
> }
>
> instead of what in my opinion would be much better:
>
> usage()
> {
> printf( "%s", "bla bla bla...\n"
> "bla bla bla...\n"
> ...
> "bla bla bla...\n");
> }
The first piece has probably been written by people who still adhere
to the Old Testament. I use split (ANSI) strings all over the place,
and don't care anymore for non-ANSI compilers. If you ask *me*, go
ahead and remove all the __P() garbage in the code...
(Well, i actually know exactly one non-ANSI compiler i'm rather fond
of to know: bcc. "Bruce's C compiler", it's in the ports, and seems
to be the only way to generate 16-bit x86 code on FreeBSD.)
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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