Re: C Mode possibility: optionally disabling K&R function headers. WDYT?

[Alan Mackenzie]

On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 01:55:01PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Stefan Monnier writes:
>  > > Solving this bug is difficult.  One way would be just to disable K&R in
>  > > C Mode, except when explicitly enabled by the user.  After all, K&R
>  > > parameters have been obsolete for over 10 years now.

>  > > The key sequnce to toggle it would be C-c C-k.

>  > And I'd rather keep it ON by default for 24.1.

> XEmacs will make its own judgment on defaults for XEmacs. :-)  I don't
> have an opinion at the moment.

:-)

> I don't understand why this is a problem though.  Does K&R allow
> typedef declarations in parameter lists?

No, but that's a poor criterion for detecting the absence of K&R.  That
typedef could just as well be a variable declaration.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).