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Message-ID: <12060.1227287735@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:15:35 -0500
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@...reable.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
trond.myklebust@....uio.no, viro@...IV.linux.org.uk,
nfsv4@...ux-nfs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 24/45] CacheFiles: Add a hook to write a single page of data to an inode [ver #41]
On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:00:30 GMT, Jamie Lokier said:
> Couldn't we just skip the "wasted" comment lines and go to //-style
> comments, since it's been standard GCC for what, 13 years now? And
> standard ANSI C for some 9 years...
The problem is that // style comments tend to encourage *really* short
comments, because we're already hitting col 80:
current->whizbang = some_random_func(dev->wombats, 0); //vryshrtcmmnt
Making people use block comments encourages this:
/*
* Since we're committed to at least 3 lines anyhow, take an
* extra line or two and explain why we're checking dev->wombats,
* rather than the more obvious proto->giraffe field....
*/
current->whizbang = some_random_func(dev->wombats, 0);
(And before you ask, trying to ban // comments on the right-hand of code, and
using // for block comments rather than /*... */ is the worst of both worlds.
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