On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 03:39:47PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:

Would you mind explaining this request? (requirement?)
Other than to say that it is the preference of some maintainers,
please say Why it is preferred.

and since the <type>s above won't typically be the same length,
it's not for variable name alignment, right?

Searching the net a little, it shows you have asked that question
before. So what is it you really wanna know?

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    Boris.

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