Re: [PATCH 00/18] use semicolons rather than commas to separate statements

[Dan Carpenter]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 02:20:00PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Sep 2020 at 21:56, Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > These patches replace commas by semicolons.
> 
> 
> Why?
> 

In the best case, these commas are just uninitentional mess, like typing
an extra space character or something.  I've looked at them before and
one case I see where they are introduced is when people convert a
struct initializer to code.

-	struct foo {
-		.a = 1,
-		.b = 2,
 		...
+	foo.a = 1,
+	foo.b = 2,

The times where commas are used deliberately to replace curly braces are
just evil.  Either way the code is cleaner with semi-colons.

regards,
dan carpenter