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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: "igor.stoppa@gmail.com" <igor.stoppa@gmail.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC: Coding Style] Best way to split a long function declaration with modifiers
Date: Sat, 12 May 2018 09:24:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f7cbb08dded668f07401276266689933f31dd23d.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH2bzCT0BhTy6-hTkaevt1VyYaZpq=AvF6cRpPHs=tzzU76twg@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, 2018-05-12 at 19:07 +0300, igor.stoppa@gmail.com wrote:
> On 12 May 2018 at 18:41, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I think the first style should be preferred when the
> > combined character length of <type> <function_name> is
> > relatively long.
> > 
> 
> thank you, I could provide a patch to the docs for this case, if it's not
> considered too much of a corner case.

I think it should not considered anything like a mandate.

Perhaps it could be described as an optional/possible style
but perhaps as well it's not necessary as coding_style for
this does not have to be rigidly specified.

cheers, Joe

      parent reply	other threads:[~2018-05-12 16:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-12 15:19 Igor Stoppa
2018-05-12 15:41 ` Joe Perches
2018-05-12 16:10   ` Igor Stoppa
     [not found]   ` <CAH2bzCT0BhTy6-hTkaevt1VyYaZpq=AvF6cRpPHs=tzzU76twg@mail.gmail.com>
2018-05-12 16:24     ` Joe Perches [this message]

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