From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: RFC: status icon support Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:27:42 +0100 Message-ID: References: <200801120157.m0C1v6WL020654@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <85r6gn5lr0.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1200137362 13928 80.91.229.12 (12 Jan 2008 11:29:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 11:29:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: tromey@redhat.com, Dan Nicolaescu , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 12 12:29:43 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JDeYZ-0000Lf-0m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:29:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JDeYA-0005vZ-Qv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 06:29:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JDeY6-0005sd-OW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 06:29:14 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JDeY1-0005it-GU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 06:29:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JDeY1-0005ib-A9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 06:29:09 -0500 Original-Received: from ns.suse.de ([195.135.220.2] helo=mx1.suse.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JDeXp-0005yN-QH; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 06:28:58 -0500 Original-Received: from Relay1.suse.de (mail2.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F1B6265DF; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:27:43 +0100 (CET) X-Yow: Xerox your lunch and file it under ``sex offenders!'' In-Reply-To: <85r6gn5lr0.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Sat\, 12 Jan 2008 12\:25\:23 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:86779 Archived-At: David Kastrup writes: > Richard Stallman writes: > >> Please no K&R in new code. =20 >> >> 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 stops the compiler from doing type checking and type conversions, fo= r > one thing. Unless you add prototypes. Andreas. --=20 Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra=DFe 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED= 5 "And now for something completely different."