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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Use NULL instead of integer 0 in security/selinux/
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Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com> writes:

> Denis Vlasenko wrote:
>> The question is, whether readers of your code (including compiler)
>> will be able to be sure that there is no error in
>> f(a,b,c,d,e,0,f,g,h);
>> statement or not. Better typecheck that 0.
>
> This I agree with, definately. It's very important to make your code
> readable, and if it's not obvious from context, make it obvious. Cases
> like the above are one of the reasons I like languages like Verilog where
> you can pass parameters by specifying the parameter name.

If your function needs nine arguments it is not readable by
definition. :-)

Andreas.

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