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From: "Dave Korn" <dave.korn@artimi.com>
To: "'he fallen in da waterr!'" <cygwin-talk@cygwin.com>
Subject: RE: religious wars
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 00:28:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <007a01c7ac88$94182ad0$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f4k8t1$9si$1@sea.gmane.org>

On 11 June 2007 20:48, Matthew Woehlke wrote:

> Dave Korn wrote:
>> [snip]
>> ... because although I really dislike the ...
>> 
>>     if( arg )
>>         x = FuncCall( arg );
> 
> Ok, I guess I'll avoid starting a war here. But, IMO the second line is
> right, and the first line should be 'if ( arg )' :-).

  You do realise that's inconsistent, yeh?
 
> That said, C != English. IMO they are allowed to have different rules
> for where to put spaces. (And... perhaps some people whose native
> language != English find the GNU coding style broken for the same
> reasons you think the alternatives are broken :-).)

  I mentioned the brackets-bind-to-the-right point for a reason: because that
makes it broken in both english /and/ C.

> You mean 'astyle'? :-)

  Shoulda guessed it would have been thought of before :) I'm sure I'm not the
first one to encounter this problem!
 
> /me starts whistling "Triangle Man", as it seems appropriate.

/me starts whistling the Harry Lime theme.

    cheers,
      DaveK
-- 
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-06-12  0:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-11 18:44 Dave Korn
2007-06-11 19:28 ` Jason Alonso
2007-06-11 20:09 ` Matthew Woehlke
2007-06-11 21:26   ` One Angry User
2007-06-11 22:30     ` Matthew Woehlke
2007-06-11 22:40       ` One Angry User
2007-06-11 22:51         ` Matthew Woehlke
2007-06-11 23:07           ` One Angry User
2007-06-12  0:31             ` Matthew Woehlke
2007-06-12  0:35               ` Dave Korn
2007-06-12  1:34               ` One Angry User
2007-06-12  1:44                 ` Matthew Woehlke
2007-06-12  4:04                   ` One Angry User
2007-06-17 17:49                     ` morgan gangwere
2007-06-12  0:28   ` Dave Korn [this message]
2007-06-12  0:44     ` Warren Young
2007-06-12  0:50       ` Dave Korn
2007-06-12  1:11     ` Matthew Woehlke
2007-06-12  1:21       ` Dave Korn
2007-06-12  1:50         ` Matthew Woehlke
2007-06-12  0:53 ` Gary R. Van Sickle
2007-06-12  1:11   ` Dave Korn

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