Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 07 Jun 2007 18:08:32 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] intel-rng: Undo mess made by an 80 column extremist |
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Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> writes: > >> I personally buy the argument that 80 cols helps remind people that they've >> used too many indentation depths and should redesign their code. >> I think it's >> a good thing to stick to where possible, even if just from a design >> perspective. > > How many is too many? A function with 2 "if" means 3 tabs = 24 characters > for just indentation. Add a printk(KERN_DEBUG "\n"); and you can print > ca. 30 characters without having to break the string. This is crazy. >
My big concern with the 80-column rule is that it discourages commenting.
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