Selon Luc Verhaegen <[email protected]>: > On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 01:51:21PM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > > Hi, Luc, > > > > I agree we should set standards as low as possible, and try to make it > > easier for people to write good code, but.. > > > > On 23.06.2009 13:39 Uhr, Luc Verhaegen wrote: > > > I personally dislike this, as it is only done to make it easier for > > > people to be lazy. > > > > > > > Or to make the code more compact and easier to read. > > I believe that this one can go both ways. People can argue these both > points from either side. > > > > By being forced to declare variables at the beginning of blocks, people > > > are pushed towards creating smaller blocks and therefor expose natural > > > deliniations quicker. > > > > While you may be right for many cases, I don't believe that cutting > > features of a programming language automatically makes people write > > better code. If it were, we'd all be writing firmware in Forth. ;-) > > This is one of those things that i believe are not a feature, and is > just something that c++ developers got used to and then claim they > missed when they were back in the C world for a bit. I agree with it. Why not adding a compiling option to have GCC in ANSI mode ?
> > > > Just because the compiler can handle it doesn't mean that you should > > > write less good code than you could. > > > > > Just because the compiler allows you to declare variables inline does > > not mean that you should create bigger code blocks or write worse code. > > It is something that cannot be stopped. It is human nature and it will > always happen. Not everybody is always as nitpicky when writing or > reviewing code. > > Luc Verhaegen. > > -- > coreboot mailing list: [email protected] > http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot > -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
