Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755793AbXEIIR4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 04:17:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752004AbXEIIRo (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 04:17:44 -0400 Received: from hp3.statik.TU-Cottbus.De ([141.43.120.68]:60986 "EHLO hp3.statik.tu-cottbus.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751769AbXEIIRn (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 04:17:43 -0400 Message-ID: <4641836C.200@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 10:16:44 +0200 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070222 SeaMonkey/1.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Satyam Sharma CC: Jeff Garzik , Randy Dunlap , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: CodingStyle: start flamewar about use of braces References: <200705081903.l48J3AOw010373@hera.kernel.org> <20070508124301.17975a4f.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <4640E971.9050400@garzik.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1382 Lines: 30 Satyam Sharma wrote: > It's quite funny to worship them as "prophets" and adopt their style > for some stuff (with a simple "Rationale: K&R.") one instant and then > suggest a style completely opposite to theirs one screenful later in > the same file. That's what happens to a text which is incrementally written by people with different writing styles (and different opinions). As a slightly off-topic side note: CodingStyle was once a guideline which sort of worked because it was a compact and entertaining read; so some people took the time to read it and didn't mind too much to adopt the preferred style. It appears that CodingStyle is now being transformed into a norm which the authors want to make work by being comprehensive, and by being able to point offenders to a chapter/ section/ clause which they breached. Alas only a few people will be able and willing to memorize CodingStyle's rules then. I don't know which form is better suited to the goal of well maintainable code --- the compact, easy to read, winning guideline, or the comprehensive norm. -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-=== -=-= -=--= http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/