Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755559Ab1D0WRO (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:17:14 -0400 Received: from mail-iy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.210.174]:63153 "EHLO mail-iy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753971Ab1D0WRM convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:17:12 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=mNIT2RvUtEbPMx+TZg0yfqx7CYtB5S5/zEKdf/easNweeBlkYrRkOx/Zz7BZCEZxb3 TtyybVlHQ4VLmubZ5k/1Ibqqtef2DFQXY1XZlKYj3MSvsnjdZeAPygGZLxNewawkRroH 39D8oy0PtnHsqlAnueI44SgXM72SFDia+St/0= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20110427214657.GE9487@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: <20110427164639.GD9487@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <1303924079.18763.70.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> <20110427214657.GE9487@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 19:17:11 -0300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] linux/string.h: Introduce streq macro. From: Thiago Farina To: Al Viro Cc: Steven Rostedt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1496 Lines: 27 On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Al Viro wrote: > That's the whole fucking _point_; adding random extensions to the language > leads to the place where Pascal and LISP are and it's not pretty.  Each > might make sense taken separately (hell, bzero(3) would prevent real, honest > to Cthulhu bugs - it's memset(p, 0, n) and we had memset-with-swapped-arguments > bugs fairly often and yes, in our tree most of memset() callers do pass '\0' > as the second argument).  Pile enough of those together and you've got yourself > a dialect only you understand.  _Bad_ idea, since the next thing that happens > is different dialects in different parts of tree.  And the end of non-incestous > code review and fixes.  I've seen it first-hand (OK, second - I had enough > sense to stay out of that particular clusterfuck) on Algol 68 codebase.  I > *really*, *really* do not want to see anything similar ever again.  Especially > on projects I can't just piss upon and walk away from.  The fact that in C > you *can* extend the language that way doesn't make it a good idea. > > While we are at it, strcmp() is, indeed, a part of the language. Part of the C standard library you mean, no? > See > section 7.21.4.2 in C99. > -- 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/