From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Sep 7 21:14:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A900337B401 for ; Sat, 7 Sep 2002 21:14:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51C6A43E6E for ; Sat, 7 Sep 2002 21:14:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0169.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.169] helo=mindspring.com) by hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17ntSu-0004p2-00; Sat, 07 Sep 2002 21:14:29 -0700 Message-ID: <3D7ACE68.D6576722@mindspring.com> Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2002 21:13:28 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jordan DeLong Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: style(9) question References: <20020908040824.GA78652@allusion.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jordan DeLong wrote: > The freebsd style guide includes a provision that #define's should > have a tab after the define, before the symbol, like: > #define^Ifoobar > > In 8-character tabs (which is also proscribed by the man page) this > lines up anyway with a single space. What's the reasoning behind > the tabs? Like most style issues, the purpose is to make it easier to use programming tools on the source code. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message