On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 07:25, Julian Foad wrote:
> VK Sameer wrote:
> >>>+          return svn_error_createf (SVN_ERR_FS_PATH_SYNTAX, NULL,
> >>>+                                    "Invalid control char. '%x' in path '%s'",
> >>>+                                    *c,
> >>>+                                    svn_path_local_style (path, pool));
> [...]
> > Done. It was there initially - got removed during vain attempts at
> > staying within 72 cols.
> 
> A width of 72 columns is good for e-mail prose to allow for quoting in replies, 
> but up to 79 or maybe 80 is fine for source code.
OK.
> Here are two other ways used in Subversion source code to reduce the column count.
> 
> Use the fact that adjacent strings are combined by the compiler, e.g.:
> 
>            return svn_error_createf (SVN_ERR_FS_PATH_SYNTAX, NULL,
>                                      "Invalid control char. '%x' "
>                                      "in path '%s'",
>                                      *c,
>                                      svn_path_local_style (path, pool));
>
> Start the argument list on a new line (indented by 2 spaces):
> 
>            return svn_error_createf
>              (SVN_ERR_FS_PATH_SYNTAX, NULL,
>               "Invalid control char. '%x' in path '%s'",
>               *c,
>               svn_path_local_style (path, pool));
This looks much nicer, to my admittedly biased eyes. I used to work with
somebody who coded like this:
  f1 (
    arg1,
    f2 (
      arg21,
      arg22,
      f3 (
        arg31,
        arg32
      )
    ),
    ...,
    argN
  );
Regards
Sameer
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Received on Wed Dec 15 05:17:14 2004