linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] linux/string.h: Introduce streq macro.

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Date:	Wed, 27 Apr 2011 20:05:59 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Thiago Farina <tfransosi@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] linux/string.h: Introduce streq macro.

On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 22:46 +0100, Al Viro wrote:

> That's the whole fucking _point_; adding random extensions to the language
> leads to the place where Pascal and LISP are and it's not pretty.  Each
> might make sense taken separately (hell, bzero(3) would prevent real, honest
> to Cthulhu bugs - it's memset(p, 0, n) and we had memset-with-swapped-arguments
> bugs fairly often and yes, in our tree most of memset() callers do pass '\0'
> as the second argument).  Pile enough of those together and you've got yourself
> a dialect only you understand.  _Bad_ idea, since the next thing that happens
> is different dialects in different parts of tree.  And the end of non-incestous
> code review and fixes.  I've seen it first-hand (OK, second - I had enough
> sense to stay out of that particular clusterfuck) on Algol 68 codebase.  I
> *really*, *really* do not want to see anything similar ever again.  Especially
> on projects I can't just piss upon and walk away from.  The fact that in C
> you *can* extend the language that way doesn't make it a good idea.
> 

So in translating the above I have:

"Don't do this because you are opening up a door that will lead to
extension hell"

Am I correct?

If I am, then I will take that as a reason not to add it and leave it at
that.

-- Steve


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