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Cc: michael <michael.copeland@gmail.com>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Why??  (prog question)
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>>>>> Tabbing is the worst form of indentation.  It is *much* better to use
>>>>> spaces consistently.
>
> The only real sin is not sticking to one style per project.  All else is just

EXACTLY.  but when i write my own program i do it to make it the way best 
for me.

anyway - doing ANYHOW but including proper comments are always best.

proper comments are like this:


/* this procedure calculates ...blah blah... from data included in 
tables pointed by X and Y, and stores results into table pointed by 
argument Z */

someprocedure(const int *X,const int *Y, const int *Z,int length) {
  someworkhere(); coded_in_any_style_may_be_mess
}


example of BAD comments:


a=b+3; //adds 3 to b and stores result to a