From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jan 21 5:42:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.x-treme.gr (mx2.x-treme.gr [212.120.192.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C040C14C33 for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 05:42:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (pat27.x-treme.gr [212.120.197.219]) by mx2.x-treme.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3/IPNG-ADV-ANTISPAM-0.1) with ESMTP id PAA04935; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 15:41:45 +0200 Received: (from charon@localhost) by localhost.hell.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) id DAA02269; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 03:43:26 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 03:43:26 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: "Matthew D. Fuller" Cc: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pico, indentation (was: Re: The 3.4-STABLE sources ...) Message-ID: <20000121034326.A1638@hades.hell.gr> Reply-To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr References: <200001181134.MAA45912@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> <20000118112201.A44535@rtfm.net> <20000118122300.A18846@futuresouth.com> <20000119002857.B57016@hades.hell.gr> <20000119001149.A24456@futuresouth.com> <20000120083115.B2879@hades.hell.gr> <20000120174843.A4414@futuresouth.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: <20000120174843.A4414@futuresouth.com> X-PGP-Fingerprint: 62 45 D1 C9 26 F9 95 06 D6 21 2A C8 8C 16 C0 8E X-Phone-Number: +30-94-6203692, +30-93-2886457 X-Address: Theodorou Kirinaiou 61, 26334 Patra, Greece Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 05:48:43PM -0600, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 08:31:15AM +0200, a little birdie told me > that Giorgos Keramidas remarked > > > > You know what they say. If your indentation level exceeds a well > > defined limit (the 80 characters of a terminal line being one such, > > uhm, `well defined limit'), you might have to reconsider your design. > > Indeed. > But that 'well defined limit' gets reached much faster (twice as fast, in > fact) with 8-char tabs than 4-char. Too much faster. > > > > Without any intention to offend anyone, I'd suggest your friend starts > > reading that style(9) manpage. > > Hey, *I* wrote a lot of the code! > Besides, there's a lot of things in style(9) that I don't like, and don't > use in my own projects. Oops! There is goes... I can almost see the fireball travelling through the night to reach my head :/ As I said, no offence intended for anyone. For one thing is that I will defend your right to keep a consistent style, whatever that is. -- Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr > "Don't let your schooling interfere with your education." [Mark Twain] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message