On 9/1/05, Paul Jackson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Coywolf wrote:
> > Why bother ...
>
> The line length in characters was getting too long, the logic was
Yeah. That long line bugged me too when I was writing my lca oom-killer patch.
> getting too convoluted, and the comment only applied to an unobvious
> portion of the line.
>
> Providing a name for the logical condition that a complicated
> expression computes is one of the ways I find useful to make
> code easier to read, and to resolve problems such as those above.
Maybe.
>
> My primary goal in writing code is to minimize the time and effort
> it will take a typical reader to properly understand the code.
> I write first and foremost for humans.
Hmm, I really wish xfs guys follow that too.
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