Re: Coding style: do_this(a,b) vs. do_this(a, b)

Alexander Nyberg
2004-08-17T16:08:24Z

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.