[bind10-dev] coding guidelines

JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉 jinmei at isc.org
Wed Oct 24 00:11:51 UTC 2012


At Fri, 19 Oct 2012 21:33:10 +0200,
Michal 'vorner' Vaner <michal.vaner at nic.cz> wrote:

> > If someone still wants to use "" in some cases, however, I wouldn't
> > strongly fight against that.  After all, this seems to be a relatively
> > minor preference issue, and except for style consistency the practical
> > pros and cons seem to be pretty marginal either way.  So if everyone
> > can feel happy by being more flexible, I'm okay with that.
> 
> Well, I find it quite nice to use them, to distinguish local headers from
> global/foreign ones. Also, on the other hand, using " " when moving directories,
> it may actually help. If you rename a library with the tests and the tests
> reference them with " ", we don't need to update them.
> 
> But anyway, with the restrictions you propose, the " " turns to be useless for
> both these goals anyway, so maybe I'd vote for < > then.

While I suggested something specific to help the discussion, I don't
have a strong opinion as I already said.  But this is probably not
worth spending too much time anyway, so assuming anyone can at least
live with <> and controlled -I settings, can we conclude this with
that policy (and maybe update the guideline)?

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JINMEI, Tatuya
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.


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