Re: Question about style when converting from K&R to ANSI C.

[Randy.Dunlap]

You did good (or even well considering that you are a
non-native speaker).  Yes, whitespace is a trivial problem.

~Randy

On 03 Jun 2003 16:44:05 +0200 Henning Schmiedehausen <[e-mail]> wrote:

| The footnote was a non-native language speakers' attempt at self-irony.
| 
| If normal people think about development environments beyond vi, they
| would consider VisualStudio an improvement. Or eclipse.
| 
| Trust me, "whitespace" or "tabs" are the smallest of your problems
| there.
| 
| Ah well, silly me, trying humour on LKLM. ;-)
| 
| 	Regards
| 		Henning
| 
| 
| On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 15:39, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
| > On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 01:18:43PM +0000, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote:
| > > <sarcasm>
| > > Bah, all this newfangled crap like ctags. We've used grep for 30 years
| > > and there is no reason to change this now. 
| > > </sarcasm>
| > > Dave, the arguments some people bring to simply cling to their
| > > formatting reminds me of the arguments that the church had in the 14th
| > > century to still prove that the sun revolves around the earth. Simply
| > > ignore them. I'm grateful that there are programming environments
| > > beyond vi. [1] :-)
| > > 	Regards
| > > 		Henning
| > > [1] emacs 
| > 
| > Spraying garbage all over source code destroys editor agnosticism, even
| > if some editor exists that can hide all the crap like trailing
| > whitespace, spaces where tabs belong, and screwed-up indentation. Use
| > emacs all you want. Don't force others to use some particular editor by
| > spewing garbage all over the kernel source that requires some special
| > editor to hide.
| > 
| > 
| > -- wli