Re: [Swan-dev] style issue

2021-03-16 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Andrew Cagney | I've now started changing this and a big motivator is so that I can | write address expressions more naturally, and just like you suggest. Great! I did not look at the history, only the code. Sorry. Since I only used the code as an example, this doesn't change the

Re: [Swan-dev] style issue

2021-03-15 Thread Andrew Cagney
On Mon, 15 Mar 2021 at 16:41, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > > This is about a matter of taste. I'd like to understand why others > don't agree with me. I'm not just jumping in to "improve" the code. > > I like compact code. It means that more functionality can be seen at > once. > > That's one

[Swan-dev] style issue

2021-03-15 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
This is about a matter of taste. I'd like to understand why others don't agree with me. I'm not just jumping in to "improve" the code. I like compact code. It means that more functionality can be seen at once. That's one reason that I like C better than COBOL (there are many others). But