Alan Coopersmith <[email protected]> writes:

> On 09/11/13 08:52 PM, Daniel Stone wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 11 September 2013 17:31, Mark Kettenis <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> From: Alan Coopersmith <[email protected]>
>>>> Pushing the patch is easy - determining if it's our consensus to change
>>>> the X.Org coding style to allow this is the hard part.
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone object to allowing this change to the coding style now that
>>>> it's no longer a hard requirement for OpenBSD's ports?
>>>
>>> It's still bad style.
>>
>> Yeah, I actually totally agree.

Why? I find it really useful, especially for the example given by Alan,
and also to declare variables just before they are used, but for this
point that's probably a matter of taste more than anything else at the
end.

> The one bit I would like to have is declarations in for/while loops, such
> as
>       for (int i = 0; i < MAXSCREENS; i++)
>
> Having declarations in the middle of code blocks I can live without, though
> in a few cases it would reduce the complexity of our #ifdef nesting.

+1

-- 
Arnaud Fontaine
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