Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 17:42:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr, "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pico, indentation (was: Re: The 3.4-STABLE sources ...) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001211738230.28772-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <20000121224739.J918@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com>
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On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Greg Lehey wrote: >I don't fight style(9), because it makes for a uniform style in the >project, and that makes it easier for people to find their way around. >But I do regret that we're still tied to such tiny views of our code. I agree. I'm not an experienced programmer, nor do i remember punched card readers (actually, i do, i just never used them. I also remember when harddrive heads we the size of dimes. (: But it seems to me that there are many ways to format C code that makes it readable, maintainable, and reasonably consistent. >overview my assembler code. In C, with indentation, the width is even >more important, yet style(9) limits us to an absolute maximum of 9 >nesting levels, and effectively bars comments to the right of code. >Both of these restrictions appear counterproductive to me. They can >result in gratuitous creation of subfunctions called only once in >order to satisfy the layout requirements. I've seen it said that the only comments should be at the beginning of the function, and that if it requires more docs, then it should be broken up. I disagree. SOmetimes there may be a few lines of code that do something out of the ordinary that could be explained in a line or two of comments, but that doesn't necessitate a new function just for those lines. -=> jm <=- Actual penalty by referee in an American Football game: "Unsportsmanlike conduct: giving him the business! Fifteen yard penalty, automatic first down!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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