[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] ve_lavc cosmetics

Rich Felker dalias at aerifal.cx
Tue Feb 14 01:31:29 CET 2006


On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 01:03:43AM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 12:39:21AM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > 
> > On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 03:51:51PM -0500, Rich Felker wrote:
> > [...]
> > 
> > > The idea that whitespace should conform to a single 'coding style'
> > > rule is IMO very misguided. The purpose of whitespace is to break the
> > > logical units (logical in terms of how humans think about it, not how
> > > the machine things) up in a way that makes them easier to read. This
> > > depends on the semantics of the code, not the syntax.
> > 
> > yes, i fully agree
> > here are a few more examples which would be literally obfuscated if
> > they where are automatically reformated
> 
> I don't think I was expressing myself very clearly..
> 
> I was not proposing to add spaces regardless of context, just to be
> consistent when adding spaces around operators like
> 
> var1=value;
> var2 = value;

And to be clear, I was explicitly saying that consistency in this area
is NOT desirable.

Rich




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