Code layout and debugging time

Jonathon McKitrick jcm at FreeBSD-uk.eu.org
Thu Apr 24 21:49:43 PDT 2003


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
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