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Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2015 20:31:58 +0200
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Coding Style
On 2015-04-05 18:02, Solar Designer wrote:
> If you use tabs only, then non-standard tab width is acceptable.
> If you use tab to indent, space to align - as you wanted to - then
> non-standard tab width is unacceptable. This gives us another option:
> switch to non-standard tab width, but give up on using space to align.
This is confusing. What you describe is precisely what I will NOT happen
when you use tab for indentation and spaces to align. Here's an example,
tabs are shown here as dashes. Author used a tab width of two and it
looked like this to him:
class myclass
__void mymethod(int arg1,
__ int arg2,
__ int arg3) {
____statement1;
____statement2;
____callSomeFunction(someotherarg1,
____ someotherarg2);
__}
}
Here's how it will look for you (width 8):
class myclass
________void mymethod(int arg1,
________ int arg2,
________ int arg3) {
________________statement1;
________________statement2;
________________callSomeFunction(someotherarg1,
________________ someotherarg2);
________}
}
Alignment was preserved, and will be preserved regardless of tab width.
Try doing the same with tabs only, and you will get an awful mess. I
presume what you mean with by "using tabs only" is to indent exactly one
tab for continuation lines too?
magnum
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