Re: coding style

[Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>]

[Stefan Richter - Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 07:43:12PM +0200]
| From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
| To: gorcunov@gmail.com
| CC: "Kok, Auke" <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>,
| 	Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>,
| 	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
| 	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
| 	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>,
| 	dave young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>,
| 	apw@shadowen.org, jschopp@austin.ibm.com
| Subject: Re: coding style
| Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 19:43:12 +0200
| 
| gorcunov@gmail.com 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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