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Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 17:44:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: Style Wars
Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, arch@FreeBSD.org
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On 29-Sep-01 David O'Brien wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 11:50:09PM -0700, John Baldwin wrote:
>> 
>> On 28-Sep-01 David O'Brien wrote:
>> > On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 05:36:31PM -0700, John Baldwin wrote:
>> >> for 3) with an additional note about sorting so that within logical
>> >> groups
>> >> of
>> >> members, you would sort the items such that the longest types are first. 
>> > 
>> > Please clarify what you are saying here.
>> 
>> Longest type measured as strlen(typename). :)  I.e.:
> 
> That is what I thought you were saying -- that breaks the rule to sort
> the members by decreasing order of `sizeof'.  (which is actually has a
> functionality element of it)

"Within logical groups of members".  Specifying the order of things in a struct
is probably not going to be a fruitful cause, however.

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