Re: Coding style

[David Kastrup]

Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden> writes:

>> In this particular case it may not matter, but the
>> 
>>   while ((flip(&d) != UP)
>> 
>> is a common idiom in the lilypond source code
>
> Chiming in on that; I think that we prefer these
> patterns or idioms over specialisations.

In this particular case, it declares a loop variable, some variables
inside and various other stuff, in order to save one call.

And I have the suspicion that sorting one group reversely might solve
the bug we are seeing here, anyway...

> Also, if you find a nice way of making the idiom nicer,
> change it all over the source tree in one go.

Well, I showed one example using break.

-- 
David Kastrup