Re: [PATCH] update checkpatch.pl to version 0.08

Jan Engelhardt
2007-07-24T16:56:41Z

On Jul 24 2007 12:33, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
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>> Warning on multiple declarations on a line is nice, but IMO really too
>> verbose (why is "int i, j;" bad? Did C somehow change syntax today?).
>
>No the normal response is two fold:
>
>1) "what the heck are i and j those are meaningless names"

Can we at least assume the submitter is sane in some ways?
i and j are picked for obvious iterater values - you would not want
verbosify that to fruit_iterator and process_iterator or whatever
because it's a hell lot more typing.
It takes more than a few Perl regexes to actually grasp the semantics
of whether "i" is useful or not.

Jan
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