From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 28 15:11:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA06423 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 28 May 1996 15:11:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA06327 for ; Tue, 28 May 1996 15:11:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id KAA06685 for ; Tue, 28 May 1996 10:24:10 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA20759; Tue, 28 May 1996 10:23:49 -0700 (PDT) To: Bruce Evans cc: grog@lemis.de, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Indentation styles In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 28 May 1996 20:35:53 +1000." <199605281035.UAA13366@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 10:23:49 -0700 Message-ID: <20757.833304229@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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