David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> writes:
quoted text >> > > Let's kill it, please. (i.e., ACK)
>> >
>> > But ... why? What value could needless parens provide?
>>
>> Who says that needless parens could provide value?
>
> Jean, which is why he submitted the patch.
> You, implicitly, by acking a patch saying those parens are bad.
> But not me ... I don't think this patch is merge-worthy.
Would also add rules like "don't put parens around the word device"
etc? There are countless silly things one could do, and we can't
explicitly prohibit all of them.
--
Måns Rullgård
mans@mansr.com
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