From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, apw@canonical.com
Subject: Re: Please fix or revert: [PATCH] checkpatch: add --strict tests for braces, comments and casts
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:34:47 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1334608487.3428.5.camel@joe2Laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120416202654.GA4678@gmail.com>
On Mon, 2012-04-16 at 22:26 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 1) It's butt ugly and it violates every basic principle of
> typography. Saving a line is often counter-productive, a
> well placed whitespace (vertical or horizontal) will often
> increase readability. Key is good balance.
True enough.
> If you don't "see" it as ugly it's simply because your brain
> is not wired up to see 3D/2D geometry as a significant
> source of information. A significant portion (I'd
> guesstimate a narrow majority) of kernel hackers *does* see
> 2D/3D layout details in code and finds inconsistencies in
> them counterproductive.
I believe there's an empty hat somewhere that must
have produced this email.
I rather doubt anyone "sees" 3d geometries out of
a coding style. Otherwise, cite please...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-16 20:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-16 9:17 Ingo Molnar
2012-04-16 18:27 ` David Miller
2012-04-16 19:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-16 19:13 ` David Miller
2012-04-16 20:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-04-16 20:34 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2012-04-16 20:34 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-04-16 21:00 ` David Miller
2012-04-17 3:30 ` Steven Rostedt
2012-04-25 8:33 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-04-16 20:58 ` David Miller
2012-04-25 8:42 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-04-16 19:44 ` Randy Dunlap
2012-04-16 19:32 ` [PATCH] checkpatch: revert --strict test for net/ and drivers/net block comment style Joe Perches
2012-04-16 19:35 ` Joe Perches
2012-04-16 20:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-04-16 20:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-17 10:07 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-04-25 22:42 ` Joe Perches
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