Re: RFC: status icon support

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>]

Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu> writes:

> Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:
>
>   > Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu> writes:
>   > 
>   > > Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>   > >
>   > >   >     Please no K&R in new code.  
>   > >   > 
>   > >   > We have no policy against K&R style.  I recently accepted non-K&R
>   > >   > function definitions in Emacs sources, but I still do not particularly
>   > >   > like it.  K&R style is easier to read anyway.
>   > >
>   > > It might be easier to read for you personally, but it is harder for
>   > > people that have never written/read any K&R code. Some emacs
>   > > contributors have started programming after C was standardized, so they
>   > > never had a chance to know any different (and its quite possible that
>   > > some were even born after the standardization).
>   > 
>   > Old-style function definitions are still part of the C standard.  They
>   > are only marked obsolescent.
>
> And because of that they are not being used, people are not being taught
> about them.

I claim that the majority of existing C sources still uses old-style
function definitions.  I cannot prove that, but given the vast amount of
existing old software I would be surprised if a programmer can learn C
without having been confronted with them.

Andreas.

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