[BusyBox] I like the style guide

Mark Whitley markw at lineo.com
Fri Nov 17 21:32:00 UTC 2000


On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 12:52:38PM -0800, Larry Doolittle wrote:
> I read the Busybox style guide for the first time.  Amazingly enough, I
> agree with _everything_ in it.

I like you already. :-)

> Well, except for the default tab setting (I use 8), but (as the guide says)
> that doesn't matter!

Indeed. I think the best resolution to the "which tab width setting is best"
argument is to just use tabs at the beginning of lines and not whitespace.

> I attach spelling fixes.  It represents little more
> than a trip through ispell(1). 

Thanks muchly. I only had one quibble with your patch.

>  
> -Cuddled Elses
> +Cuddled Else's
>  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"Else's" is possessive, "Elses" is plural. I am talking about more than one
"Else", hence plural, hence I kept it as "Elses".

Other than that, everything was ducky. You even prompted me to make a few
additions and clarifications. Feel free to look over the final result for any
other problems.

Thanks for reading the style guide, thanks for the feedback, and thanks
especially for the patch.

Cheers,

Mark Whitley
markw at lineo.com





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