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

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Date:	Wed, 27 Apr 2011 17:46:39 +0100
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Thiago Farina <tfransosi@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] linux/string.h: Introduce streq macro.

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 03:49:49PM -0300, Thiago Farina wrote:
> This macro is arguably more readable than its variants:
> - !strcmp(a, b)
> - strcmp(a, b) == 0

Strongly NACKed.  As far as I'm concerned, it's in the same shitbucket as
bcopy(3), bzero(3) et.al.  Use idiomatic C; extensions of that kind are
*bad*, since new developers have to learn them.
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