From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jan 20 15:49: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (shell.futuresouth.com [198.78.58.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E23A114E57 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 15:48:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fullermd@futuresouth.com) Received: (from fullermd@localhost) by shell.futuresouth.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA21628; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 17:48:43 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 17:48:43 -0600 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pico, indentation (was: Re: The 3.4-STABLE sources ...) Message-ID: <20000120174843.A4414@futuresouth.com> References: <200001181134.MAA45912@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> <20000118112201.A44535@rtfm.net> <20000118122300.A18846@futuresouth.com> <20000119002857.B57016@hades.hell.gr> <20000119001149.A24456@futuresouth.com> <20000120083115.B2879@hades.hell.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: <20000120083115.B2879@hades.hell.gr> X-OS: FreeBSD Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 08:31:15AM +0200, a little birdie told me that Giorgos Keramidas remarked > > You know what they say. If your indentation level exceeds a well > defined limit (the 80 characters of a terminal line being one such, > uhm, `well defined limit'), you might have to reconsider your design. Indeed. But that 'well defined limit' gets reached much faster (twice as fast, in fact) with 8-char tabs than 4-char. Too much faster. > Without any intention to offend anyone, I'd suggest your friend starts > reading that style(9) manpage. Hey, *I* wrote a lot of the code! Besides, there's a lot of things in style(9) that I don't like, and don't use in my own projects. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Unix Systems Administrator | fullermd@futuresouth.com Specializing in FreeBSD | http://www.over-yonder.net/ "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message