From owner-freebsd-chat Sun May 12 23:19:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net (pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC6E837B404; Sun, 12 May 2002 23:19:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0246.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.246] helo=mindspring.com) by pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 1779BJ-00047s-00; Sun, 12 May 2002 23:19:37 -0700 Message-ID: <3CDF5ADB.B1EF69D@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 23:19:07 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marcel Moolenaar Cc: Greg 'groggy' Lehey , Garrett Wollman , Luigi Rizzo , FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet ip_fw.c 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> <20020513021808.GA2180@athlon.pn.xcllnt.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 Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > 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. The original argument was that a tab took one byte to store, and four spaces took four bytes to store, so in any average program, you were adding an average of 1.5 bytes of storage, per line, and if you wanted to see 4 character tabs, you could do that by setting the tab stops on your terminal to 4 instead of 8. The sampe people tend to get anal about putting "{" below the "if", and trailing spaces on lines (apart from the tools arguments aginst both practices, which are usually lost on EMACS geeks...). Not as much of a problem as it used to be, in the days of 160K floppies. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message