On Wed, 24 Dec 2008, Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > > People learn, or should, through the life :-) Sure. But you should learn about the things that matter - not learn to avoid the stupid pitfalls that come from confusingly doing things so that they visually look similar even when they do different things. So don't make people learn by putting traps in their face. That just wastes everybodys time. > I'm not sure being common or less common does matter here much. > > OTOH I think it's pretty common. Approx as common as while (x) y is, > isn't it? I doubt it. It certainly wasn't in the kernel. When we added the sparse warning, I think we got a couple of hits. Anyway, not worth discussing. The fact is, the kernel does not accept do while without braces. I told you why. You can ignore it. I'll ignore you. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
