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Date:      Fri, 25 Apr 2003 05:49:35 +0100
From:      Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Code layout and debugging time
Message-ID:  <20030425044935.GG81840@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
In-Reply-To: <xzp3ck8gac2.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
References:  <20030422132906.GB64101@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <444r4qmp6n.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20030422172549.GA65023@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <xzp3ck8gac2.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 11:42:05PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
: That is way too much, and bde would have your nads for breakfast if
: you committed anything like that.

Who is bde, again?

: Simply put, too much whitespace is just as bad as no whitespace at
: all.  Imagine reading a book where every sentence is a separate
: paragraph; paragraph breaks become worthless because they no longer
: serve to group sentences together.

True, yet a lot of the kernel code and driver code does just that: extensive
commenting, even when it only means one line of code.

jcm
--
Consulting: If you aren't part of the solution, there is
a lot of money to be made in prolonging the problem.



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