On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 16:05 +0200, david48 wrote:
On the topic of indenting, it would be nice if there was a way to tell
the compiler the size of the tab characters.
The way it is now, I have to use space characters to indent.
Good! You're doing exactly the right thing according to the
On the topic of indenting, it would be nice if there was a way to tell
the compiler the size of the tab characters.
The way it is now, I have to use space characters to indent.
It's not really a problem though.
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On Aug 1, 2007, at 10:05 , david48 wrote:
On the topic of indenting, it would be nice if there was a way to tell
the compiler the size of the tab characters.
The way it is now, I have to use space characters to indent.
The problem with that is, while there's a standard for the width of a
On 8/1/07, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Aug 1, 2007, at 10:05 , david48 wrote:
On the topic of indenting, it would be nice if there was a way to tell
the compiler the size of the tab characters.
The way it is now, I have to use space characters to indent.
The
On 27/07/07, anon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I see what you did there. But you really might as well end sentences
with prepositions. Or begin them with conjunction. Or indent your code
whichever way seems most natural and elegant because to do otherwise
is just prescriptivism for its own sake.
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 08:17:06PM -0400, anon wrote:
but one could likewise dismiss the entire layout business as a
needlessly complicated way to save a few keystrokes if one were so
inclined.
The main point of layout, in my eyes, is to make code more readable.
It achieves this both by
Concerning
function argument argument2
| guard = body
| guard = body
I feel that anything that prevents that kind of horror is
a great benefit of the current rules and that this benefit
must not be lost by any revision of the rules.
The Fundamental Law of Indentation is
If major syntactic
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 08:17:06PM -0400, anon wrote:
2007/7/26, Stefan O'Rear [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Out of curiousity, what do you find objectionable about (legal):
function argument argument2
| guard = body
| guard = body
as compared to (currently illegal):
function argument argument2
2007/7/26, ok [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
The Fundamental Law of Indentation is
If major syntactic unit X is a proper part of major syntactic
unit Y, then every visible character of X is strictly to the
right[%] of the leftmost[%] visible character of Y.
[%] If you are using a right-to-left
