Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Document Qemu coding style

[M. Warner Losh]

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            address@hidden (Lennart Sorensen) writes:
: On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 04:15:14PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
: > With editors like emacs, this isn't an issue.
: 
: Who gives a @#$ what emacs does.
: 
: > Because it stretches the code vertically.  More extra useless 'blank'
: > lines makes it harder to get more code on the screen, which makes the
: > code harder to understand.
: 
: So what?  Compared to the bugs this often causes, go buy a bigger screen.

When used with emacs, the number of bugs introduced is about nil,
while the bugs introduced through lack of understanding of the code is
non-nil.  At least that's been my experience over the past 20 years of
doing this.  Your mileage may vary.  Objects in mirror are closer than
they appear.

: > Anyway, this is a highly religious issue.  Either you think that {}
: > are the bee's knees and people are morons that don't use them, or you
: > hate them with a huge passion and can't believe people are stupid
: > enough to require it.  There's a very small set of folks in between,
: > and often little common ground: usually one camp tolerates the
: > practices of the other...
: 
: I just hate the mistakes the lack of the braces cause, and they do
: cause mistakes.  It is a huge mistake that C even allowed them to be
: optional in the first place.  A bit late to fix that now.

Again, this is clearly a religious argument.  Nobody is going to
settle it here.

Warner