Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:42:02 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: Please fix or revert: [PATCH] checkpatch: add --strict tests for braces, comments and casts |
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(Sorry about the late reply, was busy with other things.)
* David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> > Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 22:26:54 +0200 > > > If you don't "see" it as ugly it's simply because your brain > > is not wired up to see 3D/2D geometry as a significant > > source of information. > > I'm sorry that I'm so handicapped that I cannot match your > visual capabilitites.
I genuinely think that it's the other way around: if what I say above is true then *you* have the superior vision for coding.
Geometric properties of code are a distraction really, they don't matter to the end result.
So in reality keeping comments balanced helps *my* disability: my inability to ignore functionally irrelevant patterns of characters...
So I am asking *you* to do me a favor: please understand my perspective and insert a bit more whitespace to keep code readable for people like me.
( The wider question is, what is the contribution weighted proportion of the two groups of kernel developers and what is the disutility and utility of the two variants. It's a difficult balancing task and there's no perfect solution. )
Thanks,
Ingo
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