On Wed, 14 May 2008 10:39:19 +0100 David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 02:17 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Wed, 14 May 2008 09:44:12 +0100 David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > I'm sorry if that offends you, but making code more readable helps me > > > find real bugs, and that is more important to me than the 80-column > > > rule. > > > > Code which wraps due to excess line sizes is less readable that code > > which avoids this. Your rhetorical trick of saying it is "more > > readable" is of course unsubstantiated and incorrect, which makes > > everything else you say baseless. > > Andrew, I'm disappointed in you. You actually _removed_ a concrete > example which substantiated my observation (an observation which Linus > has also made), and then called it 'unsubstantiated and incorrect'. > Some random individual anecdote is neither here nor there. I'm sure there are counter-anecdotes, but so what? Code which wraps in an 80-col display is hard to read in an 80-col display. Often very hard. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
