On Thu, 10 Mar 2016 07:51:01 +0100 Simon Lees <sfl...@suse.de> said:
>
>
> On 03/10/2016 02:14 AM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
> > On Wed, 9 Mar 2016 15:44:57 +0100 Simon Lees <sfl...@suse.de> said:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> On 03/09/2016 08:29 AM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
> >>> On Wed, 9 Mar 2016 17:08:54 +1000 David Seikel <onef...@gmail.com> said:
> >>>
> >>>> On Wed, 9 Mar 2016 15:39:45 +0900 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)
> >>>> <ras...@rasterman.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>> * fixed indentation (4 spaces) or not fixed
> >>>>>
> >>>>> i personally think 2 spaces is fine. 4 is just "too much". the reason
> >>>>> is most monospace fonts are taller than they are wide so "2" ends up
> >>>>> a nice diagonal like:
> >>>>
> >>>> Aren't you the guy that made 3 space indenting the standard around
> >>>> here? ;-P
> >>>
> >>> :-P~
> >>
> >> Well 4 is what most of the civilized world has agreed / standardized on
> >> so I guess its not going to be that :P
> >>
> >> On a more serious note, as someone who's brain is more visual spacial
> >> oriented and much prefers and finds it much easyer to look at shapes and
> >> colors rather then a wall of text 4 is significantly easier to read but
> >> if were going to keep doing the crazyness of indenting braces then 2 is
> >> fine because it really ends up being 4 ie
> >>
> >> if (bob.isABogan())
> >> {
> >> doSomething();
> >> }
> >>
> >> is pretty similar to what a "Normal person" would do
> >>
> >> if (bob.isABogan())
> >> {
> >> doSomething();
> >> }
> >
> > since there are no {}'s then you end up with (with 4 spaces):
> >
> > blahblah(xxx)
> > blah2whatever(yyy)
> > blah3boo(zzz)
> > wootwoot(x)
> > boobooboo(7)
> > weee(y)
> > abracadabra(hey)
> >
> > with 2 it just looks nicer:
> >
> > blahblah(xxx)
> > blah2whatever(yyy)
> > blah3boo(zzz)
> > wootwoot(x)
> > boobooboo(7)
> > weee(y)
> > abracadabra(hey)
> >
> > each indent comes out at a "visually" approximate 45 degrees due to general
> > font sizing. also it's far nicer on the typer if they have to indent - hit
> > space twice not 4 times. sure you COULD modify your editor to make tab == 4
> > spaces and force that BUT then you break your editor for the rest of the
> > unix world that has agreed on tab == 8 spaces. windows thinks tab == 4
> > spaces. so - make people hit space 4 times instead of 2? why? that's a bit
> > silly.
>
> Normally people don't hit space 4 times, normally they have there editor
> configured so that the tab key inserts 4 spaces rather then a \t :)
that is what i said.. and they have it configured to 8 spaces because that is
the standard (except on windows), so they have to reconfigure their editor JUSt
for this... or they have fucked up tab sizes as now tab != 8 spaces for many
documents... so they are going to be stuck really hitting space 4 times or
dealing with the above pain.
> Is the following still legal syntax, as I find that much easier to read
> (Not sure if i'll ever have to read / write it though.
>
> blahblah(xxx)
>
> blah2whatever(yyy)
> blah3boo(zzz)
>
> wootwoot(x)
> boobooboo(7)
> weee(y)
>
> abracadabra(hey)
>
> >
> >> 3 just messes with the musician in me that likes everything in multiples
> >> of 4.
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >> Simon
> >>
> >>>
> >>>> Though I agree, two spaces is what I prefer.
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> A big old stinking pile of genius that no one wants
> >>>> coz there are too many silver coated monkeys in the world.
> >>>
> >>>
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