Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Keith Thompson Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: C Translator Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2019 17:45:18 -0700 Organization: None to speak of Lines: 45 Message-ID: References: <5c9ef544.996282798@core> <_1InE.230560$MT2.63924@fx21.am4> <5c9f93d9.1036879283@core> <87o95s9k7v.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <87imvzaiis.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <877ecf9lyv.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <_DdoE.513530$7F3.198430@fx30.am4> <87o95p5lps.fsf@bsb.me.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="a8aa2c8b7dd2955eccfe556864ca53e6"; logging-data="1204"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/U0KLYVEybEF5ICJFcTjQ8" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:tOP1uQaBKPp0xocjfJc6ibtLULg= sha1:SmMV258STXOaudsM3ck9EhTaVGE= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:142720 Ben Bacarisse writes: > Keith Thompson writes: >> Bart writes: >>> On 01/04/2019 21:41, Keith Thompson wrote: >>>> Bart writes: >>>>> I'll probably regret asking this, but how is that code relevant? >>> >>> Because DB seems to think that everyone follows coding guidelines. This >>> is one example of many that doesn't. Not clear coding guidelines anyway. >> >> David Brown said no such thing. Here's his statement to which you >> responded: >> >> You think you are the only person that writes coding guidelines? >> What planet do you live on? >> >> Learn to read. > > I think there has been a genuine misunderstanding on both sides. David > Brown read "no one writes to precise guidelines" as "no one writes > precise guidelines". Bart then misread David's remark as also being > about writing to guidelines rather than writing the guidelines > themselves. > > Reading with care on both sides would have helped, but it's easy to miss > a word like "to" both when it's there and when you think it must be > there. Sure, but even allowing for that, I don't see how David's statement could reasonably be interpreted to imply that he thinks *everyone* does anything. Not everyone writes coding guidelines, but some do. Not everyone writes *to* coding guidelines (i.e., writes code that conforms to some guidelines) but some do. Presenting a chunk of code that presumably was not written to conform to any particular guidelines does not refute anything that anyone actually said or implied. -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org Will write code for food. void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */