Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 00:48:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: mckay@thehub.com.au (Stephen McKay) Cc: jgrosch@mooseriver.com, tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), iain@research.canon.com.au (Iain Templeton), chat@FreeBSD.ORG, mckay@thehub.com.au Subject: Re: silly C style question Message-ID: <200101270049.RAA09818@usr01.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <200101260530.f0Q5UwF18441@dungeon.home> from "Stephen McKay" at Jan 26, 2001 03:30:58 PM
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> >> [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. ;-) I think that the compact form is significantly easier to read. It lets a reader compute the result of a subexpression, and then ignore everything at that indentation level, basd on a single result. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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