Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Oct 2013 22:23:02 +0100 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH] checkpatch: Make the 80-character limit a --strict check only |
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On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 12:34:33PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> I've seen far more examples of the 80-column limit making code less > readable rather than more. It's only really helpful when it forces code > restructuring, *not* when it just forces an arbitrary line break.
So teach that piece of crap to complain about fucked-in-head line breaks like ret_val = leaf_shift_left(tb, tb-> lnum [0], tb-> lbytes - 1); in addition to obscenely long lines (and yes, it is a real-world example).
The one and only point of such tools is to help locating the crappy code. And that's the only sane criterion for evaluating new "stylistic rules" - does that particular heuristic catch enough shitty places or not?
_Anything_ can be obfuscated to the point where warnings are not produced anymore...
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