From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
To: Steven Cole <elenstev@mesatop.com>
Cc: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>,
Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Chris Heath <chris@heathens.co.nz>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: coding style (was Re: [PATCH][2.5] UTF-8 support in console)
Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 18:56:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030531175632.GL9502@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1054401248.2900.124.camel@spc>
On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 11:14:08AM -0600, Steven Cole wrote:
> statement when needed.
>
> return -ETOSENDERADDRESSUNKNOWN; /* this is OK */
> return (value & ZORRO_MASK); /* so is this */
Like hell it is. Parenthesis are _not_ needed here - production is
<statement> -> return <expression> ;
The only messy '('-related case in C grammar is sizeof as unary operation
vs. sizeof ( <type> ) (lovely way to torture parsers and students on exam:
sizeof (int)*p). Everything else is pretty straightforward...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-31 17:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-31 14:10 [PATCH][2.5] UTF-8 support in console Chris Heath
2003-05-31 14:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-31 14:43 ` coding style (was Re: [PATCH][2.5] UTF-8 support in console) Larry McVoy
2003-05-31 15:01 ` Dave Jones
2003-05-31 15:39 ` Larry McVoy
2003-05-31 17:14 ` Steven Cole
2003-05-31 17:56 ` viro [this message]
2003-05-31 19:37 ` [PATCH][2.5] UTF-8 support in console Chris Heath
2003-05-31 16:06 coding style (was Re: [PATCH][2.5] UTF-8 support in console) john
2003-06-01 4:41 ` Matt Mackall
2003-06-01 5:18 ` Randy.Dunlap
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