On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 05:14:38PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> *This* is the over-engineering attitude I was talking about.  The only
> reason why you are preferring named initializers is because
> pci_device_id MIGHT be changed.  And if it is changed, it makes the
> changeover just tad easier.  For that, you ugly up the code and make it
> more difficult to maintain.

The other reason is that it makes self documenting code -- no need to look
up the structure definition to make sense out of the code.


-Andi (who thinks easily readable code is good) 

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