Re: [PATCH 1/3] lib/string.c cleanup : whitespace and CodingStyle cleanups

[Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>]

On 9/24/05, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 11:48:44PM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > Whitespace and CodingStyle cleanups for lib/string.c
> >
> > Removes some blank lines, removes some trailing whitespace, adds spaces
> > after commas and a few similar changes.
>
> > -char * strcpy(char * dest,const char *src)
> > +char *strcpy(char *dest, const char *src)
>         ^^^
>
> Why? Seriously.
>

Two reasons

1) it matches the style most commonly used in the kernel

2) when I (and i suspect others) see
   <foo> * <bar>   my first thought is "multiplication"
   but when I see
   <foo> *<bar>   my first thought is "ptr variable" or "function returning ptr"


--
Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Don't top-post  http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html
Plain text mails only, please      http://www.expita.com/nomime.html
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/