Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Sep 2013 19:43:24 +0200 | From | Alexander Holler <> | Subject | Re: checkpatch guide for newbies |
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Am 24.09.2013 19:26, schrieb Alexander Holler: > Am 24.09.2013 18:36, schrieb Bjorn Helgaas: >> On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 3:01 AM, Dan Carpenter >> <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> wrote: >>> Long Lines >>> >>> Historically screens were 80 characters wide and it was annoying when >>> code went >>> over the edge. These days we have larger screens, but we keep the 80 >>> character >>> limit because it forces us to write simpler code. > > Sorry, but that just isn't true and never was. Having a line wide limit > of 80 characters while forcing tabs to be 8 characters long limits most > code to just 72 characters. And even less (max 64) inside constructs > like if, for or while. > > The only outcome of that totally silly rule is that variable names will > become shorted to silly acronyms almost nobody does understand make code > unreadable.
I forgot to mention function names, which are often even worse shortened than variable names.
> > I always feel like beeing in the IT stone age when programmers thought > they have to use variable names like a, b and c to save storage, memory > or to type less when reading linux kernel code. > > Regards, > > Alexander Holler > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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