Re: Question about style when converting from K&R to ANSI C.

From: Larry McVoy (lm@bitmover.com)
Date: Sun Jun 01 2003 - 08:26:26 EST

On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 11:56:16PM -0600, Steven Cole wrote:
> Proposed conversion:
>
> int foo(void)
> {
> /* body here */
> }

Sometimes it is nice to be able to see function names with a

        grep '^[a-zA-Z].*(' *.c

which is why I've always preferred

int
foo(void)
{
        /* body here */
}

Is there some reason that I'm missing that the kernel folks like it the other
way? 

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Larry McVoy              lm at bitmover.com          http://www.bitmover.com/lm
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