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'.

That's somewhat disingenuous of you.

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dwmw2

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