Re: coding style for long conditions (WAS: Re: [PATCH 25/90] ... blinky leds!!)

Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-06T21:56:44Z

On Apr 6 2007 14:05, David Brownell wrote:
>
>Please change your coding style to conform to Documentation/CodingStyle.
>
> *** Only indent with tabs!! ***
>
>Every one of those examples violates that simple rule.
>
>Why does *anyone* have even the slightest difficulty understanding such a
>simple rule? I realize that two of those words have more than a single
>syllable, but that should not be a problem. Even EMACS is trainable.

Tabs should be used for indent, not padding. People wanting to use
different-sized tabs can change settings in their editor, i.e.
to make a tab 12 instead of 8. Or 6. Or whatever. If tabs only ever
appear at the front, this works, it breaks when tabs are used to line
up foo->bar=1; foo->boom=17; statements.

Jan
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