On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 01:38:38PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > David E. Wheeler wrote: >> On May 1, 2009, at 8:38 AM, Robert Haas wrote: >> >>> Speaking of space/tab settings, one thing I'm fuzzy on is the rule >>> for wrapping long lines. I understand that a line that extends >>> past 80 characters has to be wrapped, but the amount of >>> indentation on the continuation line doesn't appear to follow a >>> consistent pattern - or does it? >> >> “Perl Best Practices” recommends an indentation of 4 spaces, both >> for block indentations and line continuations. Not sure what'd be >> best for C, though. > > Please, let's not have a whole host of different indentation styles. > Postgres has a well established style. Let's stick to it in both > perl and C.
Perl is not C, and there's no good reason to make them look the same. We don't format SQL the same way we do C either, and that's a totally reasonable decision. Using idiomatic perl like this: foreach my $element (@array) { # clear, short, idiomatic code here } instead of Rube Goldberg constructs like this: my $i; for ($i=0; $i <= $#array; ++$i) { # kludges up down and sideways here } is a good idea because it makes it easier for Perl programmers to maintain. It's also more efficient on the machine, for what that's worth. Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fet...@gmail.com Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers