linux-kernel - Re: coding style

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Date:	Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:10:26 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
Cc:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>,
	Chris Friesen <cfriesen@...tel.com>,
	dave young <hidave.darkstar@...il.com>,
	"Kok, Auke" <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com>, Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: coding style

On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 23:18:04 +0400 Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:

> [Jan Engelhardt - Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 09:10:49PM +0200]
> | 
> | On Jun 15 2007 11:03, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> | >> 
> | >> "use tabs for indents and spaces for alignment"
> | >> 
> | >> If that means you need to use two dozen spaces, then so be it.
> | >
> | >I don't think that's what that rule means, but I didn't write it,
> | >so I'm not absolutely sure about it.
> | >
> | >but we know that tab stops are every 8th character, not 4 :)
> | 
> | Hardly.
> | 
> | 
> | 
> | 
> | 	Jan
> | -- 
> | 
> 
> Jan, as I see from CodingStyle:
> 
> 	"Tabs are 8 characters, and thus indentations are also 8 characters."
> 
> Actually it would be perfect to get strict rules also for math. and log.
> operators being splitted on several lines:

I disagree that CodingStyle should contain such strict rules for
line continuations.

> 	if (long_name_a || long_name_b ||
> 	    long_name_c)
> 
> 		or
> 
> 	if (long_name_a || long_name_b
> 	    || long_name_c)
> 	
> 	
> 	a = b + c + d + e +
> 	    f;
> 
> 		or
> 
> 	a = b + c + d + e
> 	    + f;


---
~Randy
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