From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268272AbUHQQIY (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Aug 2004 12:08:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268319AbUHQQIY (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Aug 2004 12:08:24 -0400 Received: from mxfep02.bredband.com ([195.54.107.73]:6022 "EHLO mxfep02.bredband.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268272AbUHQQIF (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Aug 2004 12:08:05 -0400 Subject: Re: Coding style: do_this(a,b) vs. do_this(a, b) From: Alexander Nyberg To: Albert Cahalan Cc: linux-kernel mailing list , pavel@ucw.cz In-Reply-To: <1092743463.5759.1403.camel@cube> References: <1092743463.5759.1403.camel@cube> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1092758863.1948.2.camel@boxen> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 18:07:43 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 13:51, Albert Cahalan wrote: > > Coding style document is not consistent with > > itself on whether there should be space after > > ","... This makes it standartize on ", " option. > > You can read it both ways, right? It's easy. > I can't even see the difference unless I'm > looking for it. > > We don't need any more bureaucracy. > > do_this(a,b); > do_this(a, b); > do_this (a,b); > do_this (a, b); > > I can read them all. I might notice the space in > front of the '(', but I might not. Even putting a > space in front of the ';' isn't unreadable. > > People will pass laws until they are choked off, > unable to move without being in violation of some > silly little thing. Some of us do see it and find it very annoying, I'm one of those who very much prefer do_this(a, b) and especially when there are more than two parameters. One of the reasons I do like linux is the coding standard, I find many other projects completely unreadable.