On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:59:35PM +0100, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> Sure - because email is not C code.
>
> Actually you don't "read" C code, word by word, as you read books - do
> you?
If it's decently written - sure, why not? Unfortunately, more common case
is somewhere between the writing on
Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> So, yes, I have the screen estate for very long lines, but I find that
> long lines require more effort to read (that very much includes leading
> whitespace). Also, since long lines are rare (and they should be, if you
> nest too deep you have other is
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 7:54 PM, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If a patch or if a file has a clean _style_, bugs and deeper
> structural problems often stand out like a sore thumb. But if the
> code is peppered with random style noise, it's a lot harder (for me
> at least
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 04:17:17PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Even with e-mail, I can easily show over 200 characters wide with a
> large font (say 11pt) but find it harder to read emails that don't
> nicely wrap at 78. So much so that I often find myself not reading the
> mail, or restyling i
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 12:55:03AM +1030, David Newall wrote:
> Bart Van Assche wrote:
> > There is a reason to limit line length: scientific research has shown
> > that readability of regular texts is optimal for a line length between
> > 55 and 65 characters.
>
> Putting aside the point that we'
On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 00:55 +1030, David Newall wrote:
> Bart Van Assche wrote:
> > There is a reason to limit line length: scientific research has shown
> > that readability of regular texts is optimal for a line length between
> > 55 and 65 characters.
>
> Putting aside the point that we're tal
Bart Van Assche wrote:
> There is a reason to limit line length: scientific research has shown
> that readability of regular texts is optimal for a line length between
> 55 and 65 characters.
Putting aside the point that we're talking code, not regular text, I've
heard that said before and I don't
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 2:46 AM, David Newall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> > Perhaps we should increase line length limit, 132 should be fine.
> > Especially useful with long printk() lines and long arithmetic
> > expressions.
>
> Yes; or even longer. 80 characters mi
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:29:09PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > So I'd be happier with warnings about deep indentation (but how do you
> > count it? Will people then try to fake things out by using 4-space indents
> > and then "deep" indentation
Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> So I'd be happier with warnings about deep indentation (but how do you
> count it? Will people then try to fake things out by using 4-space indents
> and then "deep" indentations will look like just a couple of tabs?) and
> against complex expression
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