From: "David Leimbach" <leimy2k@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Function args not checked
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 08:28:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3e1162e60604170828y1d46b4c6xc77064b88aa5c16@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4443B191.1000703@asgaard.homelinux.org>
On 4/17/06, "Nils O. Selåsdal" <noselasd@asgaard.homelinux.org> wrote:
> jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote:
> > As an aside, when you declare prototypes I find it is best to
> > only give the types of the parameters and not declare identifiers,
> > e.g.
> > extern Elem mkoid(Ints *); // asn1.h
> > rather than
> > extern Elem mkoid(Ints *oid); // asn1.h
> > This prevents confusion in environments where there is overuse
> > of the pre-processor and the identifier gets substituted.
>
> Valid point,but I find the names quite helpful and of documentary
> value - perhaps it's a defect of mine after reading too much
> non-obvious code.
>
Well a lot of people fall back to header files for documentation
purposes, and looking headers to figure out which of the "char *'s" is
a source and which is a destination in some cases is nice.
Nothing that can't be solved with good comments and man pages though.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-17 15:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-17 6:50 Rodolfo (kix)
2006-04-17 7:00 ` geoff
2006-04-17 7:25 ` Rodolfo (kix)
2006-04-17 14:52 ` jmk
2006-04-17 15:17 ` "Nils O. Selåsdal"
2006-04-17 15:28 ` David Leimbach [this message]
2006-04-17 15:31 ` jmk
2006-04-17 15:40 ` Paul Lalonde
2006-04-17 16:30 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-04-17 20:43 ` Don Bailey
2006-04-17 15:53 ` Victor Nazarov
2006-04-17 16:00 ` Devon H. O'Dell
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