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Re: string swap

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Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:

> raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) writes:
> 
> > sinbad <sinbad.sinbad@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> int
> >> main() {
> >
> > This is, IMAO, a horrible style.  [...]
> 
> That is an interesting remark.  Can you say what you
> don't like about it?

You don't write your own name

Tim
Rentsch

do you?

It's a sop to diehards who are so wedded to their refusal to use a
decent IDE with proper, project-wide search features that they can't
believe anything could be stronger than eMacs and/or Vile regexes, and
would rather mutilate their source code than switch to a more modern
development system, or even a real editor. It costs an extra line, and
splits a declaration unnecessarily, just because some people are
convinced they look like Ye Olde Time Hackeres when they use an
outdated, over-complicated, under-powered search tool.

I'll note that not even the people who advocate the above style take it
so far as to write

int
cx,
cy,
dx,
dy;

even though all their arguments apply just as much to object identifiers
as to function ones.

Richard

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  Re: string swap raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2016-07-31 15:38 +0000
    Re: string swap Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2016-07-31 12:42 -0700
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        Re: string swap Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2016-08-01 07:33 -0700
      Re: string swap raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2016-08-03 13:21 +0000
        Re: string swap Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2016-08-05 09:11 -0700
          Re: string swap raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2016-08-10 12:56 +0000
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