From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Documentation/CodingStyle: Add rules for goto labels
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 19:31:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4664CAFF.2040300@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070605021210.GG31462@havoc.gtf.org>
Jeff Garzik wrote:
>>
>> So, it seems that we can reach an agreement. Any other comments or suggestions?
>> Or can someone ack/merge this patch?
>
> Honestly, I think not reaching an agreement is a good thing.
>
> "style" is always ultimately in the eye of the beholder, and reasoned
> people come up with multiple answers to the same question.
>
> Sometimes it's better _not_ to set things in stone. "use your
> judgement" and "follow the existing style" go a long way.
>
Indeed. Quite frankly, style guides would be a lot less obnoxious if
there weren't always people who felt the need to "correct" other
people's styles. That is usually a rather obnoxious thing to do, at
least as long as the code is reasonably clean to start out with.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-05 2:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-03 14:24 [RFC] Documentation/CodingStyle: Add rules for goto labels WANG Cong
2007-06-03 14:29 ` Al Viro
2007-06-03 14:45 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-06-03 15:35 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-04 4:58 ` WANG Cong
2007-06-04 6:59 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-04 7:51 ` WANG Cong
2007-06-04 8:19 ` [RFC] Documentation/CodingStyle: Add rules for goto labels (-v2) WANG Cong
2007-06-04 18:30 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-06-04 19:02 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-05 1:37 ` WANG Cong
2007-06-10 2:31 ` Al Viro
2007-06-04 17:27 ` [RFC] Documentation/CodingStyle: Add rules for goto labels H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-04 19:00 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-04 21:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-04 17:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-04 17:35 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-06-04 17:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-04 17:54 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-06-04 18:01 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-04 17:57 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-05 2:10 ` WANG Cong
2007-06-05 2:12 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-05 2:31 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-06-05 7:44 ` WANG Cong
2007-06-05 9:16 ` Rene Herman
2007-06-06 4:53 ` WANG Cong
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