From: Tim Hockin <thockin@hockin.org>
To: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>, Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Lindent fixed to match reality
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 15:17:24 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040129231724.GA814@hockin.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040129225456.GM16675@khan.acc.umu.se>
Ahh, religion.
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 11:54:56PM +0100, David Weinehall wrote:
> But I guess that was just a typo? Of course, since the ()'s are useless
> here anyway, and doesn't really bring any added bonus, we end up with
>
> sizeof *foo + 1
>
> vs
>
> sizeof*foo + 1
No, you're building a straw man. Everyone knows that you should always use
the parens on sizeof(). Just because you CAN leave them out SOMETIMES does
not mean you SHOULD.
> sizeoffoo
>
> would be invalid code, while
>
> sizeof foo
>
> is perfectly valid.
ooh, look at that straw man burn!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-29 23:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-29 19:37 Lindent fixed to match reality Matt Mackall
2004-01-29 19:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-29 20:00 ` Matt Mackall
2004-01-29 20:15 ` David Weinehall
2004-01-29 20:35 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-01-29 20:42 ` David Weinehall
2004-01-29 20:52 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-01-29 21:46 ` Matt Mackall
2004-01-29 22:37 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-01-29 22:54 ` David Weinehall
2004-01-29 23:17 ` Tim Hockin [this message]
2004-01-29 23:43 ` David Weinehall
2004-01-30 14:44 ` Theodore Ts'o
2004-01-30 17:49 ` David Weinehall
2004-01-30 21:08 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-01-29 20:17 ` Roland Dreier
2004-01-29 20:37 ` Erik Hensema
2004-01-29 21:55 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2004-01-30 16:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-30 10:38 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
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