To: David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se>
Cc: 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
References: <20040129193727.GJ21888@waste.org>
	<20040129201556.GK16675@khan.acc.umu.se>
From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: 30 Jan 2004 14:08:25 -0700
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David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se> writes:

> On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 01:37:28PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > I've been fiddling with cleaning up some old code here and suggest the
> > following to make Lindent match actual practice more closely. This does:
> > 
> > a) (no -psl)
> > 
> > void *foo(void) {
> > 
> >  instead of
> > 
> > void *
> > foo(void) {
> > 
> > b) (no -bs) "sizeof(foo)" rather than "sizeof (foo)"
> 
> I can't really see the logic in this, though I know a lot of people do
> it.  I try to stay consistent, thus I do:

If consistency was good in a language we would all be using
an RPL or s-expr based language.  Communication is clearer
with redundant information.  Making special cases of common
cases is a good thing.

Eric
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