From owner-freebsd-standards Sun Dec 30 9:54:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-standards@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 898F637B419 for ; Sun, 30 Dec 2001 09:54:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (imp@69.imp.village.org [10.0.0.69]) by rover.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fBUHsgl31936; Sun, 30 Dec 2001 10:54:42 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 10:54:40 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <20011230.105440.26516576.imp@village.org> To: joe.halpin@attbi.com Cc: standards@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Emacs and style(9) From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <3C2F5009.30D6EE6F@attbi.com> References: <3C2F1F41.E260DDAA@attbi.com> <20011230.102758.21910806.imp@village.org> <3C2F5009.30D6EE6F@attbi.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG : Well, this is pretty personal stuff. I doubt that "cause" is the right : word, but I can believe that the smaller the indentation level, the more : inclined someone might be to throw another if (...) or two in there. It : takes some judgement to realize when to break out a block of code into a : separate function. Let's just say that I've seen shallow indentation favored by programmers that tended to lack such judgement :-) : Still, 8 spaces seems a bit excessive to me, especially if the code : contains long variable names, etc. True, but for style(9) programs it is the law of the land... Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-standards" in the body of the message