Re: Any exceptions for the 15-line rule?

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

> The latter is licensed under GPLv3+, but I'm pretty sure the author
> (brianjcj AT gmail, not sure what's his full name) has not signed the
> CA. And I'm not wild about the idea of waiting several months to add the
> feature (that is, if the author even agrees to sign the CA).

The change includes

   -    (with-temp-buffer
   +        (buf (get-buffer-create "*clang-output*"))
   +    (with-current-buffer buf (erase-buffer))
   +    (with-current-buffer buf

Which seems like it's making the code worse rather than better.
If you undo this undesirable part of the patch, it'll be closer to
the acceptable limit.

For company-clang--lang-option, I'd be tempted to use

   (defun company-clang--lang-option ()
     (if (eq major-mode 'objc-mode)
         (if (string= "m" (file-name-extension buffer-file-name))
             "objective-c" "objective-c++")
       (substring (symbol-name major-mode) 0 -5)))

With such cleanups, the patch seems acceptable as a "tiny change".
But please do ask for the CA as well (so the use of "tiny change" is
mostly a way to avoid having to wait for the CA to go through).


        Stefan