On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 7:26 PM, Alexander Holler <holler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Am 24.09.2013 18:36, schrieb Bjorn Helgaas: >> >> On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 3:01 AM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> >> 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 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. I was about to disagree because I've never seen variables named a, b or c, but I found that there are at least 2238 variables named a, b or c in linux-next. This is not good. > > Regards, > > Alexander Holler > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" > in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Peter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
