Re: Please fix or revert: [PATCH] checkpatch: add --strict testsfor braces, comments and casts

[Joe Perches]

On Mon, 2012-04-16 at 22:26 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>  1) It's butt ugly and it violates every basic principle of
>     typography. Saving a line is often counter-productive, a 
>     well placed whitespace (vertical or horizontal) will often 
>     increase readability. Key is good balance.

True enough.

>     If you don't "see" it as ugly it's simply because your brain
>     is not wired up to see 3D/2D geometry as a significant
>     source of information. A significant portion (I'd 
>     guesstimate a narrow majority) of kernel hackers *does* see
>     2D/3D layout details in code and finds inconsistencies in 
>     them counterproductive.

I believe there's an empty hat somewhere that must
have produced this email.

I rather doubt anyone "sees" 3d geometries out of
a coding style.  Otherwise, cite please...

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