Re: condingstyle, was Re: utrace comments

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

On Tue, 1 May 2007, Satyam Sharma wrote:
> Actually, the latter style (one condition per line and the && or ||
> operators appearing _before_ the conditions in subsequent lines)
> is quite popular for multi-line compound conditions (well, I've seen this
> in kernel/workqueue.c, kernel/stop_machine.c, etc at least, and also in
> Linus' code, if I'm not mistaken). We also align subsequent lines to the
> column of the condition belonging to the same "logical level" on the
> previous line using _spaces_ (note that this is alignment, not indentation,
> using spaces). The rationale is to make the operator prominent and thus make
> the structure of a complex multi-line compound conditional expression more
> readable and obvious at first glance itself. For example, consider:
> 
> 	if (veryverylengthycondition1 &&
> 		smallcond2 &&
> 		(conditionnumber3a ||
> 		condition3b)) {
> 		...
> 	}
> 
> versus
> 
> 	if (veryverylengthycondition1
> 	    && smallcond2
> 	    && (conditionnumber3a
> 	        || condition3b)) {
> 		...
> 	}
> 
> ?
> 
> Latter wins, doesn't it?

... because you forgot to align subsequent lines to the column of the
condition belonging to the same "logical level" on the previous line.

Consider this:

	if (veryverylengthycondition1 &&
	    smallcond2 &&
	    (conditionnumber3a ||
	     condition3b)) {
		...
	}

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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