On 03/31/2010 08:48 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Thanks, but I have to refuse such changes, especially in the likes
> of dfa.c.  They decrease readability.  It is already too complex,
> and as soon as grep stabilizes (i.e. goes a week or so without a new bug
> report) I plan to move many more declarations "down", along with other
> clean-up and maintainability- and readability-improving changes.

Jim, your statements hold true for coreutils and grep directly.  But I
recall that gnulib still aims for C89 compilation out-of-the-box, and
isn't the intent to move dfa.c into gnulib, at which point, a patch like
this would be important?

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