agree with Sarah. 80 column should not be strictly enforced...
MG On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 9:33 PM, 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
