Re: Lindent fixed to match reality

[Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 09:15:56PM +0100, David Weinehall wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 01:37:28PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > I've been fiddling with cleaning up some old code here and suggest the
> > following to make Lindent match actual practice more closely. This does:
> > 
> > a) (no -psl)
> > 
> > void *foo(void) {
> > 
> >  instead of
> > 
> > void *
> > foo(void) {
> > 
> > b) (no -bs) "sizeof(foo)" rather than "sizeof (foo)"
> 
> I can't really see the logic in this, though I know a lot of people do
> it.  I try to stay consistent, thus I do:
> 
> if ()
> for ()
> case ()
> while ()
> sizeof ()
> typeof ()

Well, sizeof and typeof are operators rather than flow structures so
they're a little different. But what I'm really trying to do here is
make Lindent match actual practice (as a first approximation of the
community's preferred practice) rather than argue the merits of any
particular usage.

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