On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 02:20:00PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Sep 2020 at 21:56, Julia Lawall <julia.law...@inria.fr> wrote:
> >
> > These patches replace commas by semicolons.
> 
> 
> Why?
> 

In the best case, these commas are just uninitentional mess, like typing
an extra space character or something.  I've looked at them before and
one case I see where they are introduced is when people convert a
struct initializer to code.

-       struct foo {
-               .a = 1,
-               .b = 2,
                ...
+       foo.a = 1,
+       foo.b = 2,

The times where commas are used deliberately to replace curly braces are
just evil.  Either way the code is cleaner with semi-colons.

regards,
dan carpenter

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