From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
To: Jay Denebeim <denebeim@deepthot.org>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: coding style question
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 11:29:05 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040225112905.33bfdea8.rddunlap@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0402251128430.6557-100000@dent.deepthot.org>
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 11:40:27 -0700 (MST) Jay Denebeim wrote:
| On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
|
| > On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 06:16:48PM +0000, Jay Denebeim wrote:
| (I mentioned typedefs being removed)
| > > what was the reasoning for this?
| >
| > We hate typedefs.
|
| Well, that's certainly convincing. Funny that, I don't recall hating
| typedefs, in fact I distinctly recall liking them and being happy when
| they were added to Lattice's Amiga compiler back in the stone age. Is
| there some particular reason 'we' hate them?
For anything other than very basic types, they hide/obfuscate
data structures. If it's a struct, we had rather see a struct
used there.
--
~Randy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-25 19:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-25 18:16 coding style question Jay Denebeim
2004-02-25 18:25 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-02-25 18:40 ` Jay Denebeim
2004-02-25 19:29 ` Randy.Dunlap [this message]
2004-02-25 19:37 ` Jay Denebeim
2004-02-26 0:02 ` Bryan Henderson
2004-02-25 22:40 ` Patrick Mansfield
2004-02-26 16:09 ` Clay Haapala
2004-02-26 1:28 ` Jeff Garzik
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