Perhaps that argues for 2 spaces for .js/.lzs/.as files and 4 spaces for .lzx files...
On Jul 28, 2006, at 4:49 AM, P T Withington wrote: > Yes, I have the design whitespace issue fairly well beaten into me by > Neil. > > But is it true you can never have too much whitespace? Why do we use > only 4 spaces? Why not 8, or 80? I can see that 1 is not visually > distinct, but in a fixed width font, 2 seems enough. And if we > enforce 80 cols, 4 can start to seem wasteful. There are deeply > nested blocks in the LFC where the lines get _very_ short because of > the 4-space indent. > > Now that we are moving to class declarations, your function body > starts out with 2 levels of indentation, add a little control flow, > and before you know it, you have less than 50 chars left on your > line... > > On 2006-07-28, at 00:33 EDT, Sarah Allen wrote: > >> my $.02... >> >> I like 4 spaces, but maybe that's just because Adam insisted upon >> in at the beginning of time and I've just gotten used to it. >> Besides whitespace is nice, not wasteful -- ask any designer you >> know. >> >> I'm also for 80col -- I like having room for two pages side by side >> on my wide screen. >> >> >> On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 11:09 AM, Daniel Salama wrote: >> >>> I use Emacs to develop Laszlo apps and really like the automatic >>> indentation I get when using nxml mode. I like the fact that line >>> breaks are aligned after the tag name so all beginning attributes >>> are aligned and that's usually after the 2nd column since tag >>> names are themselves longer than 2 columns. >>> >>> I think 4 spaces is wasteful. I like 2 spaces. I also would like >>> to limit page width to, at most, 80 cols. I don't care about the >>> 1280. There is still a very large hacker community that sticks to >>> the 80 cols because of compatibility across systems and editors. >>> >>> Just my 2 cents :) >>> >>> - Daniel >>> >>> On Jul 25, 2006, at 1:50 PM, P T Withington wrote: >>> >>>> Scott, please explain yourself. 4 seems wasteful. >>>> >>>> Long lines are considered harmful, no matter how wide your average >>>> screen. Have you read the Times lately? >>>> >>>> On 2006-07-25, at 13:36 EDT, Benjamin Shine wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> 4! 4! 4! >>>>> Which I only say after having Scott slap me around repeatedly for >>>>> doing it wrong. >>>>> I used to be into 3, myself. >>>>> While we're at it, DARE WE come up with a line length recommended >>>>> limit? Pablo uses >>>>> 80 and maybe you hardcore oldskoolers do, but please, have you >>>>> seen >>>>> the size of the standard screen lately? Show me a coder who >>>>> doesn't >>>>> have at least 1280 across and I'll show you... um. >>>>> >>>>> On Jul 25, 2006, at 7:05 AM, P T Withington wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> After the 'grand class conversion', Phil and I plan to re- >>>>>> indent the >>>>>> LFC sources. [Right now Phil is making the conversion trying to >>>>>> minimize the whitespace changes to make it easy to review. >>>>>> Once we >>>>>> have tested and verified that it all works, we plan to re- >>>>>> indent.] >>>>>> >>>>>> Looking over the LFC sources, we have some code that is >>>>>> indented with >>>>>> 4 spaces and some with 2. Do we care? My personal preference >>>>>> is 2 >>>>>> -- it's enough to be visually distinct without being wasteful. >>>>>> But most of the sources (and apparently most editors) default to >>>>>> 4. We >>>>>> have a change to make things uniform. >>>>>> >>>>>> Vote your choice today! >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Laszlo-dev mailing list >>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>> http://www.openlaszlo.org/mailman/listinfo/laszlo-dev >>>>> >>>>> benjamin shine >>>>> software engineer >>>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Laszlo-dev mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://www.openlaszlo.org/mailman/listinfo/laszlo-dev >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Laszlo-dev mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://www.openlaszlo.org/mailman/listinfo/laszlo-dev >> > > _______________________________________________ > Laszlo-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.openlaszlo.org/mailman/listinfo/laszlo-dev _______________________________________________ Laszlo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.openlaszlo.org/mailman/listinfo/laszlo-dev
