From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LoR4G-0003jI-2a for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:39:00 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LoR4B-0003j6-Lq for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:38:59 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=46913 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LoR4B-0003j3-E8 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:38:55 -0400 Received: from caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca ([129.97.134.17]:49641) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LoR4A-00015C-Fv for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:38:54 -0400 Received: from caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA9D173D0C for ; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:38:53 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:38:53 -0400 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Document Qemu coding style Message-ID: <20090330233853.GT3795@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> References: <49D12392.6040107@redhat.com> <20090330214321.GP3795@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <20090330.161514.117919654.imp@bsdimp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090330.161514.117919654.imp@bsdimp.com> From: lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 04:15:14PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: > With editors like emacs, this isn't an issue. Who gives a @#$ what emacs does. > Because it stretches the code vertically. More extra useless 'blank' > lines makes it harder to get more code on the screen, which makes the > code harder to understand. So what? Compared to the bugs this often causes, go buy a bigger screen. > Anyway, this is a highly religious issue. Either you think that {} > are the bee's knees and people are morons that don't use them, or you > hate them with a huge passion and can't believe people are stupid > enough to require it. There's a very small set of folks in between, > and often little common ground: usually one camp tolerates the > practices of the other... I just hate the mistakes the lack of the braces cause, and they do cause mistakes. It is a huge mistake that C even allowed them to be optional in the first place. A bit late to fix that now. -- Len Sorensen