Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 15:17:24 -0800
From: Tim Hockin <thockin@hockin.org>
To: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>, Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
       linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Lindent fixed to match reality
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Ahh, religion.

On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 11:54:56PM +0100, David Weinehall wrote:

> But I guess that was just a typo?  Of course, since the ()'s are useless
> here anyway, and doesn't really bring any added bonus, we end up with
> 
> sizeof *foo + 1
> 
> vs
> 
> sizeof*foo + 1

No, you're building a straw man.  Everyone knows that you should always use
the parens on sizeof().  Just because you CAN leave them out SOMETIMES does
not mean you SHOULD.

> sizeoffoo
> 
> would be invalid code, while
> 
> sizeof foo
> 
> is perfectly valid.

ooh, look at that straw man burn!

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