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Date:      Thu, 28 Jan 1999 21:39:36 -0700
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net>
Cc:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: btokup().. patch to STYLE(9) (fwd)
Message-ID:  <199901290439.VAA03999@mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990128230223.A1973@netmonger.net>
References:  <199901290326.OAA22743@godzilla.zeta.org.au> <19990128230223.A1973@netmonger.net>

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> The apparent infallability of code and historical documents anyone
> tries to update suggests that the Pope was involved with CSRG.

No, but in general the combined experience of the CSRG folks is greater
than most of the programmers here.

> Encouraging unreadable code is something I find highly questionable.

I find the KNF style highly readable.  As a matter of fact, I find the
extra parentheses *often* to be a bunch of noise.

And, as Bruce implied, if you don't know your precedence rules, you
shouldn't be doing kernel programming.




Nate

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