Re: [PATCH] md: make the code more readable in the for-loop

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NeilBrown <nfbrown@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Mon, May 09 2016, Shaohua Li wrote:
>
>> On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 09:33:39AM +1000, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
>>> I do not see how this change makes it clearer. The original form is
>>> actually a very common and clear
>>> 	scan an array in reverse order
>>
>> People always have different opinions for this stuff. When I read '--j' or
>> 'j--', I always think extra time what the value of j is. So for me the change
>> actually makes the code more readable :)
>
> If the goal is to make the code more readable, you may as well make it:
>
>   for (j = 0; i < ->raid_disk; j++)
>
> That will be clearer to most people than the current code, which I don't
> think is very much clearer than the original (maybe a little bit).

I agree - I had to read the updated version multiple times to convince
myself it was doing the same thing as the original.

Cheers,
Jes
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