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Date:      Fri, 28 Sep 2001 18:59:13 -0500
From:      Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Subject:   Re: Style Wars
Message-ID:  <20010928185913.U9056@prism.flugsvamp.com>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010928165401.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20010928233146.8959B3809@overcee.netplex.com.au> <XFMail.010928165401.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 04:54:01PM -0700, John Baldwin wrote:
> 
> On 28-Sep-01 Peter Wemm wrote:
> > John Baldwin wrote:
> >> [ moved to -arch ]
> >> 
> >> On 28-Sep-01 Julian Elischer wrote:
> >> > well maybe We can come up with a tweek to the standard that we can 
> >> > all agree to... 
> >> > and commit.. It is after all a 'living' document..
> >> 
> >> Certainly a viable option.  I've seen a couple of ideas so far:
> >> 
> >> 1) Use two tabs instead of one when types longer than one tab such
> >>    as u_int64_t are used.
> >>    1a) Same as 1) but the tabs after after the type, not just the
> >>        first word.
> > 
> >      1b) Same as 1a), but also with 2) for types longer than two tabs.
> >          ie:  "struct verylongtypename *foo;"
> > 
> >> 2) Use a space instead of a tab after types longer than one tab like
> >>    we already do for queue macros.
> 
> I'm think 1b) is the one most people have favored so far and it is rather close
> to our existing style, so it's not that big of a change.  Does anyone object to
> 1b)?  It basically results in the following changes: use 2 tab spaces instead
> of 1 for type names, put the entire type name before the tab(s), and if the
> type is too long, just use a space.

I prefer 1) (and the 1b variant), but not 1a).   (e.g.: <sys/eventvar.h> )
-- 
Jonathan

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