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From: Iain Templeton <iain@research.canon.com.au>
To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu
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Subject: Re: silly C style question
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On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Crist J. Clark wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 05:31:44PM -0800, Freddie Cash wrote:
> > Bah!  If you are worried about screen space and legibility, there's 
> > always the following:
> > 
> > if (0==i)
> >   { foo(i);
> >     bar(i);
> >   }
> 
> Everyone knows it should be,
> 
> Or,
> 
>   if ( 
> 	  i 
> 	  == 
> 	  0 
>   )
>   {
> 	  foo(
> 		  i
> 	  )
> 	  ;
> 
> 	  bar(
> 		  i
> 	  )
> 	  ;
>   }
> 

Wow, that is way too close to our standard C style here... although
we use 4 space tabs...

    if
    (
        i
        ==
        0
    )
    {
        foo
        (
            i
        );

        bar
        (
            i
        );
    }

Although, we only do that for really long lines so they fit within 80ish
characters, or for really complex logical expressions. I didn't like it
at first, but I can see the benefits after having to figure out some
code.

-- 
Iain Templeton, Software Engineer (allegedly)
Canon Information Systems Research Australia



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