From owner-freebsd-chat Sun May 12 19:18:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from kayak.xcllnt.net (209-128-86-226.bayarea.net [209.128.86.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C84437B403; Sun, 12 May 2002 19:18:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from athlon.pn.xcllnt.net (athlon.pn.xcllnt.net [192.168.4.3]) by kayak.xcllnt.net (8.11.6/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g4D2I9J99561; Sun, 12 May 2002 19:18:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@kayak.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: from athlon.pn.xcllnt.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by athlon.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4D2I8uJ002201; Sun, 12 May 2002 19:18:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: (from marcel@localhost) by athlon.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g4D2I8Rd002200; Sun, 12 May 2002 19:18:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel) Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 19:18:08 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" Cc: Garrett Wollman , Luigi Rizzo , FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet ip_fw.c Message-ID: <20020513021808.GA2180@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020513113450.C8222@wantadilla.lemis.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i 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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message