Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 10:23:49 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: grog@lemis.de, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Indentation styles Message-ID: <20757.833304229@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 28 May 1996 20:35:53 %2B1000." <199605281035.UAA13366@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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> 8 is too much but we're stuck with it. There is something to be said > for the discipline required to minimise nesting. Don't right code like > this: Or you could be entirely heretical, like me, and go to 4 column tabs and 120 column formatting. :-) I used to be an 80 column / 8 column tabstop kinda guy right up until about a year ago, when I underwent a sea change and decided that if programming styles could change radically in response to increasing memory and disk resources, then it could damn well change in response to the bitmap display revolution. :-) At 120 columns, I now have much more room to display text, not needing to chop complex expressions into multi-line unreadability or make 72 column text (for output) with crap around it much more difficult to format. I also realize that this is going to be a highly unpopular position to take in these comparatively early days of GUI technology, so be it - just consider me 3-4 years ahead of my time on this issue. :-) Jordan
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