Re: kernel guide to space (updated)

[David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se>]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 09:52:01PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> 
> >I'd definitely call that a joe-bug.  Adding extra space for no good
> >reason is just silly; for consistency we'd have to add a space for the
> >case <foo>: labels also...
> 
> No, the word "case" never starts at column 1 (counting from 1), but at least 
> in column <minimalIndent>, where minimalIndent is the default indent for that 
> particular piece of code.

Ehrm, yes, I'm perfectly aware of that.  Note the "for consistency" in
that sentence.  If we add an extra space in front of the labels that
have an indentation level of 0, we'd better do it with the labels that
have an indentation level > 0 too.


Regards: David
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