Re: Remain Calm: Designated initializer patches for 2.5

[H. Peter Anvin]

David S. Miller wrote:
>    From: "H. Peter Anvin" <[e-mail]>
>    Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 23:32:35 -0700
>    
>    As far as I could tell, *ALL* of these changes broke text alignment in 
>    columns.  It would have been a lot better if they had maintained 
>    spacing; I find the new code much more cluttered and hard to read.
> 
> I have to admit that I hate the new syntax too.  The GCC syntax is
> so much nicer.

The C99 syntax actually has some advantages (I believe it lets you 
initialize array elements in a saner way), but my complaint had to do 
with the fact that whitespace for alignment wasn't preserved.

	-hpa