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Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 11:53:06 -0700
From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: randy.dunlap@oracle.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] CodingStyle: Printing numbers in parentheses is fine
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> From randy.dunlap@oracle.com  Sat Sep 29 11:40:17 2007
>
> Let's kill it, please.  (i.e., ACK)

But ... why?  What value could needless parens provide?
"Yet Another Subtle And Hard To Fix Source Of Bloat" is
not a plus.

I'd kind of think a change like this should have some
positive motivation.

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