Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 04:39:43 +0100 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Style(9) question Message-ID: <a05200f1eba04a864625b@[192.168.0.3]> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20021122160808.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <XFMail.20021122160808.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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At 4:08 PM -0500 2002/11/22, John Baldwin wrote:
> The reason to not put them in is to avoid wasting screen real-estate
> on mostly blank lines. You also errantly assume that you will always
> come back and add more statements later. :)
I'm sorry. Why do we care about screen real-estate and having
mostly blank lines, if this might help us write more correct and
secure programs? And might help us write code that can be more
easily managed in the future?
It's not like you're even arguing that this would cause source
code bloat, because the number of extra bytes would actually be quite
small. Maybe some white space leading up to the brace, but certainly
nothing after it.
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.
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