linux-kernel - Re: condingstyle, was Re: utrace comments

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Date:	Tue, 01 May 2007 15:16:13 +0100
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:	Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: condingstyle, was Re: utrace comments

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.

-- 
dwmw2

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