Re: [RFC: Coding Style] Best way to split a long function declaration with modifiers

From: Joe Perches
Date: Sat May 12 2018 - 12:24:59 EST


On Sat, 2018-05-12 at 19:07 +0300, igor.stoppa@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On 12 May 2018 at 18:41, Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >
> > I think the first style should be preferred when the
> > combined character length of <type> <function_name> is
> > relatively long.
> >
>
> thank you, I could provide a patch to the docs for this case, if it's not
> considered too much of a corner case.

I think it should not considered anything like a mandate.

Perhaps it could be described as an optional/possible style
but perhaps as well it's not necessary as coding_style for
this does not have to be rigidly specified.

cheers, Joe