From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jan 25 21:30:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from ns5.pacific.net.au (ns5.pacific.net.au [203.143.252.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFA3837B400 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 21:30:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from dungeon.home (ppp119.dyn249.pacific.net.au [203.143.249.119]) by ns5.pacific.net.au (8.9.0/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA13759; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 16:30:16 +1100 (EST) Received: from dungeon.home (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dungeon.home (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f0Q5UwF18441; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 15:30:58 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from mckay) Message-Id: <200101260530.f0Q5UwF18441@dungeon.home> To: jgrosch@mooseriver.com Cc: Terry Lambert , Iain Templeton , chat@FreeBSD.ORG, mckay@thehub.com.au Subject: Re: silly C style question References: <200101241124.f0OBOgm22341@dungeon.home> <200101252134.OAA28804@usr08.primenet.com> <20010125140416.A12493@mooseriver.com> In-Reply-To: <20010125140416.A12493@mooseriver.com> from Josef Grosch at "Thu, 25 Jan 2001 14:04:16 -0800" Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 15:30:58 +1000 From: Stephen McKay Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thursday, 25th January 2001, Josef Grosch wrote: >On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 09:32:57PM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: >> > [Expansively indented example, Basser style.] >> > Try that one any other way. :-) >> >> [Terry's compact format] > > [Josef's compact format] But neither of the compact formats can be easily read. To be certain what it they are doing, you have to laboriously trace the brackets, or hop about in them using vi's % operator. I admit I write all of mine in such a compact style, but always wonder what it would be like to get away with the clear but hugely "wasteful" of vertical space Basser format. I can't imagine such a format lasting long in a commit to /sys/anything around here. ;-) Stephen. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message