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

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2009291542090.2808@hadrien>
Date:   Tue, 29 Sep 2020 15:42:32 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...ia.fr>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
cc:     Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...ia.fr>,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/18] use semicolons rather than commas to separate
 statements



On Tue, 29 Sep 2020, Joe Perches wrote:

> On Tue, 2020-09-29 at 14:47 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > On Tue, 29 Sep 2020, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > > The times where commas are used deliberately to replace curly braces are
> > > just evil.  Either way the code is cleaner with semi-colons.
> >
> > I also found exaamples like the following to be particularly unforunate:
> >
> >                                 fprintf(stderr,
> >                                         "page_nr %lu wrong count %Lu %Lu\n",
> >                                        page_nr, count,
> >                                        count_verify[page_nr]), exit(1);
> >
> > The exit is very hard to see, unless you know to look for it.
>
> I sent that patch last month.
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11734877/
>
> It's still not applied.

OK, thanks.  I'll not send those then :)

julia