style guide (was Re: any value in a standard for defining bit flags?)

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Thu Jul 6 15:19:36 UTC 2006


On Thursday 06 July 2006 5:35 am, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

> > 1) We use tabs for indents.  Most developers use tabs to mean 4
> > spaces, but since we only use tabs at the beginning of lines, almost
> > any tab-space conversion ratio will keep the code looking sane.
>
> to a certain extent, yes.  but the choice of spaces per tab is
> important since, if you don't take it into account, it will make a
> mess when you print the source file.  not a big deal, just something
> you don't want to forget.

Remember the 80 character limit I mentioned?  That's 80 characters with 4 
space tabs.

If you want to count by hand, feel free...

> rday

Rob
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