Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 19:18:08 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Luigi Rizzo <luigi@FreeBSD.org>, FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet ip_fw.c Message-ID: <20020513021808.GA2180@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> In-Reply-To: <20020513113450.C8222@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200205122043.g4CKhod56192@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020512230017.GB4770@genius.tao.org.uk> <20020512163100.A26082@iguana.icir.org> <200205122343.g4CNhP7X023643@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20020513092718.A13919@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020513012619.GA1967@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <20020513113450.C8222@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 11:34:50AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> > The argument that code looks better or is more readable when
> > indented with 4 spaces as compared to 8 spaces can be applied
> > recursively and transitively to yield that code looks better
> > or is more readable when not indented at all. Since this is
> > obviously a silly statement, I can only conclude that the whole
> > reasoning is flawed.
>
> The argument that code looks better or is more readable when indented
> with 8 spaces as compared to 4 spaces can be applied recursively and
> transitively to yield that code looks better or is more readable when
> indented an infinite amount.
Precisely. It's just as silly.
> I'm not really attacking style(9) here (I'll reserve that for some
> other time :-), I'm just pointing out that there are alternative
> arguments. Times change. For example, many programming languages
> *do* have no indentation.
No argument.
> > \begin{brainfart}
> > CRA n.
> > Compulsive Reintenders Anonymous. A support group
> > for people with an unnatural tendency to reindent
> > anything not indented with their favorite spacing.
> > \end{brainfart}
>
> Especially when people point out that it was done with the best of
> (re)intentions? :-)
Bollocks... Of all the words in all the sentences I had to
make a typo there... :-(
Ah, well...
--
Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net
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