linux-kernel - Re: [Cocci] Coccinelle: Checking the relevance of parentheses in “git grep”

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2010271303190.2847@hadrien>
Date:   Tue, 27 Oct 2020 13:03:35 +0100 (CET)
From:   Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...ia.fr>
To:     Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>
cc:     Coccinelle <cocci@...teme.lip6.fr>,
        Gilles Muller <Gilles.Muller@...6.fr>,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        Nicolas Palix <nicolas.palix@...g.fr>,
        Sumera Priyadarsini <sylphrenadin@...il.com>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Cocci] Coccinelle: Checking the relevance of parentheses in “git grep”



On Tue, 27 Oct 2020, Markus Elfring wrote:

> >> … git grep -l -w \( -e for_each_node_by_type … -e for_each_node_with_property \) -- '*.c'
> >>
> >>
> >> How do you think about to omit these parentheses here?
> >
> > Does it make a difference?
>
> I find that it can be nicer to avoid the passing of unnecessary characters.
>
> * The compilation of the affected OCaml source files can eventually benefit
>   from another bit of clean-up, can't it?

I have no idea what this means.

julia

> * The called software components do also not need to fiddle with such extra data then.
>
> Regards,
> Markus
>