Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:35:20 +0000 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Drop 80-character limit in checkpatch.pl |
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On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 06:29:25PM -0500, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> No. If someone wrote an expression too long to be understood, he will not > understand it when maintaining his code, he burns himself and he will > eventually learn to not write such long expressions. Or ... if he > understands it, there is no problem with it.
Yes, there is. Somebody else trying to find a bug. And having to figure out which of five unfamiliar pieces of code is likelier candidate.
> There is no need to make a script for it. The script isn't so smart to > tell what is understandable and what is nto.
Oh, definitely. No arguments on that one...
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