Re: coding style

From: Cyrill Gorcunov
Date: Sat Jun 16 2007 - 14:24:00 EST


[Stefan Richter - Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 07:43:12PM +0200]
| From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| To: gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx
| CC: "Kok, Auke" <auke-jan.h.kok@xxxxxxxxx>,
| Chris Friesen <cfriesen@xxxxxxxxxx>,
| LKML <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
| Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>,
| Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
| dave young <hidave.darkstar@xxxxxxxxx>, Willy Tarreau <w@xxxxxx>,
| apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx, jschopp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| Subject: Re: coding style
| Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 19:43:12 +0200
|
| gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
| > [Stefan Richter - Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 03:07:43PM +0200]
| > | Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
| > | > There sould be someting making strict rule over alignment (as it done
| > | > for the tabs size).
| > |
| > | That's impracticable. Alignment, as it serves readability, cannot be
| > | covered by a few strict rules.
|
| > Yes, but C syntax (and grammar) is limited set. And alignmet I'm talking
| > about may cover the following statements only:
| >
| > 1) Mathematical
| > 2) Logical
| > 3) Function's arguments
|
| Sure, but we have sometimes long names and long ./-> dereference
| expressions. Alignment of those after line wraps sometimes turns out
| better if 'taste' rather than a simple rule is applied.
| --
| Stefan Richter
| -=====-=-=== -==- =----
| http://arcgraph.de/sr/
|

Of course you're absoulutely right!!! And that is why I've mentoined
that it would be _recommendations_ only in CodingStyle.

Cyrill

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