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Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 15:32:28 +0200
From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Subject: Re: 80 column line limit?
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Hi,

On 1/5/06, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> wrote:
> Can't we relax the 80 column line rule to something more comfortable?
> These days descriptive variable/function names are much more valuable,
> I think.

I don't see the point, really. If your nesting is within reasonable
limits, long names are usually not a problem. And your nesting is too
deep, it should be fixed. Out of curiosity, what limit do you think
would work better to you?

                                        Pekka
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