Larry Luther: > I'm a newbie to D, not to programming. The first computer I got to > program was a Digital PDP-8L.
Wow :-) On the base of your long experience do you like D so far? > I'm learning D. And I am listing what I think can be improved in your D code :-) You are free to not follow my advice... > The IT guy said use HTML > and that worked, but you don't like it, It's the Web interface of the D groups that doesn't seem to like HTML :-) >The OutlookExpress editor must be replacing my spaces with tabs. I have seen 2 spaces in your code. > The Association of Computing Machinery did a study of indentation a long > time ago > and found that indentations of 2 or 3 were best. I picked 2. I have shown you the D style guide written by the Walter, the D main designer. Some people don't follow that style guide, but I like it and I think a language-community-wide style guide is important for a modern language. I too used to use 2 spaces religiously, but today monitors have 120+ columns, not 80 as (probably) when that ACM study was carried out. Things change as time goes on. If you use 2 columns it's a bit harder to see indentations and you can be more tempted to use many indentation levels in your code. Keeping four is a way to discourage the usage of too many indentation levels. In the end you are free to use the number of indentations you like in D snippets :-) Don't get upset, we are all learning :-) There are many things in D that I have yet to understand. Bye, bearophile
