Re: CodingStyle question: multiple statements on a single line

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 11:38:01AM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
> 	if (a) {
> 		b;
> 	}
> 
> to
> 
> 	if (a)
> 		b;
> 

Why oh why the kernel do this stupid style?

I hate that.  It makes debuging such a pain in the @#$@#$.  Anytime you
want to do anything in that area you have to add back the missing '{}'
around the statement, so that you can add debug statements to the
condition.

Stupid stupid stupid!!!

It is so annoying when you accidentally break the code by trying to
debug it by doing:

	if (a)
		printk("Trying to do b\n");
		b;

Usually kernel style makes sense, but this part is stupid, inconsistend
with how any condition with multiple statements is done, and error
prone, especially when trying to debug.

Who's stupid idea was this anyhow?

-- 
Len Sorensen
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