From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Edward Shishkin Subject: Re: The reiser4 programming style is recursive? Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:23:33 +0300 Message-ID: <49404165.6050806@gmail.com> References: <494035ED.4000706@gmx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <494035ED.4000706@gmx.de> Sender: reiserfs-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Ralph Ulrich Cc: reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org Ralph Ulrich wrote: > Is it true that the programming style of reiser4 is recursive style what is a definition of recursive programming style? > and > that this kind of style was rejected from the kernel developers? > AFAIK they were unhappy with assertions and "coding nits" like if (foo) { bar(); } Eventually akpm said that assertions are okay and guys send cleanup patches against other issues once in a while. > If true: How much effort would it be to recode reiser4 to a style which > has a chance of inclusion in the linux kernel? > > And if there will be a recoding effort to be made, wouldn't it be a > great idea to use a cleaner and more modern programming language link D ? > > Thanks in advance for answering my more general questions. > Ralph > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe reiserfs-devel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > >