On 9/1/05, Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Coywolf wrote: > > Why bother ... > > The line length in characters was getting too long, the logic was
Yeah. That long line bugged me too when I was writing my lca oom-killer patch. > getting too convoluted, and the comment only applied to an unobvious > portion of the line. > > Providing a name for the logical condition that a complicated > expression computes is one of the ways I find useful to make > code easier to read, and to resolve problems such as those above. Maybe. > > My primary goal in writing code is to minimize the time and effort > it will take a typical reader to properly understand the code. > I write first and foremost for humans. Hmm, I really wish xfs guys follow that too. -- Coywolf Qi Hunt http://sosdg.org/~coywolf/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/