Am 26.09.2013 04:11, schrieb Al Viro: > On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 12:10:57AM +0200, Alexander Holler wrote: > >> Sure and I'm the last one who wants that people do have to use >> anything else than i for simple loop counters. And allowing longer >> lines doesn't mean people have to use long names, it allows them use >> them (if it makes sense). That's a big difference. >> >> On the other side it's almost impossible to use verbose variable or >> function names where they would make sense. Not to speak about all >> the ugly splitted lines just to be below that ancient CGA limit. > > Yeah, the things people will do to avoid <gasp> not nesting the living > hell out of their code... > > Tell you what - pick a random place where the code is nested 8 levels > deep and I'm fairly sure that you will end up with your finger on one > hell of ugliness. Ugliness in logical structure, not in forced line > breaks. Let's experiment... Aha. In drivers/pci/hotplug/ibmphp_pci.c, > 258 lines of deeply indented shite^Wcode that must be good since it compiles: > > <avert your eyes if you've got a weak stomach> I'm aware of people which do nest 8 levels deep just to avoid a return, break or goto. But trying to limit that by limiting the line length is like ... (choose your own own misguided comparison, it's too late for me I currently only meorize some of those which don't make sense in english) 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
