Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Jul 2002 23:40:54 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Remain Calm: Designated initializer patches for 2.5 |
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David S. Miller wrote: > From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> > Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 23:32:35 -0700 > > As far as I could tell, *ALL* of these changes broke text alignment in > columns. It would have been a lot better if they had maintained > spacing; I find the new code much more cluttered and hard to read. > > I have to admit that I hate the new syntax too. The GCC syntax is > so much nicer.
The C99 syntax actually has some advantages (I believe it lets you initialize array elements in a saner way), but my complaint had to do with the fact that whitespace for alignment wasn't preserved.
-hpa
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