Satyam Sharma wrote: > It's quite funny to worship them as "prophets" and adopt their style > for some stuff (with a simple "Rationale: K&R.") one instant and then > suggest a style completely opposite to theirs one screenful later in > the same file.
That's what happens to a text which is incrementally written by people with different writing styles (and different opinions). As a slightly off-topic side note: CodingStyle was once a guideline which sort of worked because it was a compact and entertaining read; so some people took the time to read it and didn't mind too much to adopt the preferred style. It appears that CodingStyle is now being transformed into a norm which the authors want to make work by being comprehensive, and by being able to point offenders to a chapter/ section/ clause which they breached. Alas only a few people will be able and willing to memorize CodingStyle's rules then. I don't know which form is better suited to the goal of well maintainable code --- the compact, easy to read, winning guideline, or the comprehensive norm. -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-=== -=-= -=--= http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
