Re: Clarifying confusion of our variable placement rules caused by cleanup.h
Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
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On Wed, 31 Dec 2025 13:17:32 +0100 Andy Shevchenko <[email protected]> wrote: > > There was variation of this type of nonsense with headers (not only it has > > to be sorted alphabetically but by length too!) > > By length it indeed sounds weird, but alphabetical is the natural language > order everybody learnt from the daycare / school years, so it's properly > programmed in our deep brain. Having that allows to find easily if anything one > is interested in is already being included. Also it allows to avoid dup inclusions > (was there, fixed that for real). So, it's not bad. Actually, I like the "by length" because its aesthetically easier on the eyes. Alphabetically is fine, but either one helps in catching duplicate headers. -- Steve