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Re: [PATCH] issue 1954 - v3

From: VK Sameer <sameer_at_collab.net>
Date: 2004-12-15 05:16:02 CET

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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