On Sat, 30 Jan 1999, Greg Lehey wrote:
> of intelligibility. Consider one possible expansion
>
> if (((allocationfail | (IGNOREFAILUREMASK & (incount %
BLKSIZE))) ^ failures) != 0)
or
if (((allocationfail |
(IGNOREFAILUREMASK & (incount % BLKSIZE))) ^
failures) != 0)
>
> (yes, this still doesn't make sense, but I can't be bothered to look
> for something more appropriate) This is now 99 characters wide, and
> it's the kind of code which doesn't gain in legibility by being broken
> into multiple lines,
I'll say.. I tried several different splits.. the above is as good
as I can get it or me..
> especially if the indentation of the follow-on
> lines is independent of the structure of the expression. bde has made
> it clear he considers code more than 80 characters wide to be Evil.
> Question: how many people still limit their editor windows to 80
> characters?
I do
These cases are rather rare for me, but sometimes I have to split like
shwon. Sometimes I'll use a temp variable and sometimes I'll look to see
if a macro can be used if parts of the test are done more than once.
The trouble with > 80 chars is that the console is 80 chars wide.. :-)
julian
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