From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>,
Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>,
dm-devel@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Drop 80-character limit in checkpatch.pl
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:35:20 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091217233520.GH18217@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0912171744070.21142@hs20-bc2-1.build.redhat.com>
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 06:29:25PM -0500, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> No. If someone wrote an expression too long to be understood, he will not
> understand it when maintaining his code, he burns himself and he will
> eventually learn to not write such long expressions. Or ... if he
> understands it, there is no problem with it.
Yes, there is. Somebody else trying to find a bug. And having to
figure out which of five unfamiliar pieces of code is likelier
candidate.
> There is no need to make a script for it. The script isn't so smart to
> tell what is understandable and what is nto.
Oh, definitely. No arguments on that one...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-17 23:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-15 21:57 [PATCH] Drop 80-character limit in checkpatch.pl Mikulas Patocka
2009-12-15 21:57 ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-12-15 22:26 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-12-15 22:26 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-12-17 9:31 ` Américo Wang
2009-12-17 15:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-12-17 15:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-12-17 15:18 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-12-17 15:18 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-12-17 15:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-12-17 16:08 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-12-17 16:08 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-12-17 16:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-12-17 16:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-12-17 16:30 ` Janakiram Sistla
2009-12-17 18:05 ` Andi Kleen
2009-12-18 13:31 ` Pádraig Brady
2009-12-18 16:32 ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-12-18 16:32 ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-12-18 22:33 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-12-18 13:04 ` Jiri Kosina
2009-12-18 13:04 ` Jiri Kosina
2009-12-18 13:55 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-12-18 13:55 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-12-18 14:39 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-12-18 14:39 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-12-27 17:15 ` Jon Smirl
2009-12-21 6:32 ` Paul Mundt
2009-12-22 15:10 ` Jiri Kosina
2009-12-16 10:58 ` Andi Kleen
2009-12-16 19:59 ` Alex Chiang
2009-12-17 6:12 ` Paul Mundt
2009-12-17 6:12 ` Paul Mundt
2009-12-17 8:34 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-12-17 23:29 ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-12-17 23:29 ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-12-17 23:35 ` Al Viro [this message]
2009-12-18 4:29 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-12-18 5:12 ` [PATCH] scripts/checkpatch.pl: Change long line warning to 105 chars Joe Perches
2009-12-18 5:57 ` Paul Mundt
2009-12-18 5:57 ` Paul Mundt
2009-12-18 17:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-12-18 17:54 ` Joe Perches
2009-12-18 18:41 ` Andi Kleen
2009-12-18 14:37 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-12-18 14:37 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-12-18 15:12 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2009-12-18 15:12 ` [dm-devel] " Alasdair G Kergon
2009-12-18 16:58 ` Randy Dunlap
2009-12-18 16:58 ` [dm-devel] " Randy Dunlap
2009-12-18 17:12 ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-12-18 17:12 ` [dm-devel] " Mikulas Patocka
2009-12-18 22:36 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-12-18 17:31 ` Joe Perches
2009-12-18 17:31 ` Joe Perches
2009-12-18 14:28 ` [PATCH] Drop 80-character limit in checkpatch.pl Krzysztof Halasa
2009-12-18 14:28 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-12-18 14:52 ` kevin granade
2009-12-18 16:43 ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-12-18 16:43 ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-12-18 16:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-12-18 16:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-12-18 17:09 ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-12-18 17:09 ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-12-18 17:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-12-18 17:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-12-18 21:15 ` kevin granade
2009-12-18 15:11 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-12-17 22:37 ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-12-17 22:37 ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-12-17 23:12 ` Paul Mundt
2009-12-17 23:12 ` Paul Mundt
2009-12-17 23:33 ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-12-17 23:33 ` Mikulas Patocka
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