On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 11:18:05AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:It'd be nice to split the current CodingStyle into two documents: - A shorter CodingStyle that gives the spirit of the style (short functions, minimal nesting, logic as straightforward as possible, etc.), and addresses the most commonly repeated mistakes, without so much detail that people's eyes glaze over. You want to be able to recommend it to your students (or whoever) in reasonable confidence that they'll actually read it and have fun (leave the jokes in!). Currently I'm suspicious that it's becoming something that everybody recommends but noone bothers to sit down and read anymore unless they're working on it. - A CodingStyleReference that's just a long dry list of rules, organized to make it easy to look up an individual rule when needed. That'd also take the pressure of CodingStyle to accept every new detail. It'd be a start just to revert CodingStyle to its original content and move the rest to CodingStyleReference. But someone would want to skim through the CodingStyle history for any legimate corrections that we want to keep. --b. -
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