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Subject: Re: [patch] checkpatch: putting the && or || on the wrong line
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
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> Increasing e.g.
> readability of the code would be a good reason, but statistics?

Standardization of style in a large project increases
readability and decreases errors full stop.

Outside of that, it's _all_ bikeshedding.

cheers, Joe