Re: condingstyle, was Re: utrace comments

[Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>]

On Tue, 01 May 2007 15:16:13 +0100 David Woodhouse wrote:

> On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 11:00 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > 
> >         if (veryverylengthycondition1 &&
> >             smallcond2 &&
> >             (conditionnumber3a ||
> >              condition3b)) {
> >                 ...
> >         }
> 
> It's horrid. I'd much rather see
> 
>         if (veryverylengthycondition1 &&
>             smallcond2 &&
>             (conditionnumber3a || condition3b)) {
>                 ...
>         }
> 
> Even if that does take it over 80 columns, the 'failure' mode will be
> that it gets wrapped round to the beginning of the screen or truncated
> at 80 columns -- and for the _majority_ of the time, it doesn't matter.
> 
> Unless you're paying particular attention to the logic and debugging the
> statement, a 'high-level' view of what's going on is perfectly
> sufficient; you don't actually read every character anyway.

I prefer this format also, but I'm not sure that we can get it
into CodingStyle.  CodingStyle is about (either) concensus or
dictum, but I don't see us close to concensus...

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~Randy
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