Re: Lindent fixed to match reality

[Eric W. Biederman]

David Weinehall <tao@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 01:37:28PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > I've been fiddling with cleaning up some old code here and suggest the
> > following to make Lindent match actual practice more closely. This does:
> > 
> > a) (no -psl)
> > 
> > void *foo(void) {
> > 
> >  instead of
> > 
> > void *
> > foo(void) {
> > 
> > b) (no -bs) "sizeof(foo)" rather than "sizeof (foo)"
> 
> I can't really see the logic in this, though I know a lot of people do
> it.  I try to stay consistent, thus I do:

If consistency was good in a language we would all be using
an RPL or s-expr based language.  Communication is clearer
with redundant information.  Making special cases of common
cases is a good thing.

Eric
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