From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Stan Shebs <stan@codesourcery.com>
Cc: Tristan Gingold <gingold@adacore.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFA] Darwin/x86 port (v4 - part 1/4: machoread.c)
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:50:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081118185359.GA4806@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49230DBA.1030208@codesourcery.com>
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:47:22AM -0800, Stan Shebs wrote:
> The whole space-or-no-space issue is so pedantic I can barely type this
> message :-) , but the reality is that if you complicate the rules to
> allow some exceptions, it opens the door to interminable debates over
> whether this or that construct is exception-worthy. We minimize the time
> we spend thinking about this by just having the one simple rule that
> mechanically applies to everything.
The coding standards are practically a set of codified exceptions
anyway :-) Like I said, whichever others prefer - I found this
style more readable at the time but it may have been the wrong thing
to do.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-18 18:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-14 18:33 Tristan Gingold
2008-11-18 17:20 ` Stan Shebs
2008-11-18 19:54 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-11-18 21:46 ` Stan Shebs
2008-11-18 21:50 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2008-11-19 21:21 ` Tristan Gingold
2008-11-26 16:30 ` Stan Shebs
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