From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
Cc: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] CODING_STYLE: don't allow non-indented statements after if/else blocks
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:16:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AE6119C.8040008@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091026202707.GR26129@hall.aurel32.net>
Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> That's the problem. We have seen that people already take advantage of
> the ambiguities, as I would have never have imagined someone writing the
> code in the rationale of this patch to avoid putting braces.
>
I appreciate the desire to be precise, but we aren't writing a compiler
or an automated syntax checker. We're writing a set of guidelines for
reasonable people to follow. If someone sets out to "defeat"
CODING_STYLE by introducing some crazy syntax, the solution is
simple--just don't take the patch. Good sense must prevail regardless
of what CODING_STYLE says.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-26 21:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-26 6:26 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] CODING_STYLE: don't allow non-indented statements after if/else blocks Aurelien Jarno
2009-10-26 16:02 ` Blue Swirl
2009-10-26 20:03 ` Aurelien Jarno
2009-10-26 20:20 ` Blue Swirl
2009-10-26 20:27 ` Aurelien Jarno
2009-10-26 21:16 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
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