Re: coding style

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Fri Jun 15 2007 - 18:10:40 EST


On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 23:18:04 +0400 Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:

> [Jan Engelhardt - Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 09:10:49PM +0200]
> |
> | On Jun 15 2007 11:03, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> | >>
> | >> "use tabs for indents and spaces for alignment"
> | >>
> | >> If that means you need to use two dozen spaces, then so be it.
> | >
> | >I don't think that's what that rule means, but I didn't write it,
> | >so I'm not absolutely sure about it.
> | >
> | >but we know that tab stops are every 8th character, not 4 :)
> |
> | Hardly.
> |
> |
> |
> |
> | Jan
> | --
> |
>
> Jan, as I see from CodingStyle:
>
> "Tabs are 8 characters, and thus indentations are also 8 characters."
>
> Actually it would be perfect to get strict rules also for math. and log.
> operators being splitted on several lines:

I disagree that CodingStyle should contain such strict rules for
line continuations.

> if (long_name_a || long_name_b ||
> long_name_c)
>
> or
>
> if (long_name_a || long_name_b
> || long_name_c)
>
>
> a = b + c + d + e +
> f;
>
> or
>
> a = b + c + d + e
> + f;


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~Randy
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