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to: Auke Reitsma
from: George White
date: 1998-06-19 07:09:00
subject: Coding style

Hi Auke,

You wrote to Juha-Matti:

AR> JT> I have tried to improve my coding practice and there has come up
AR> JT> an issue that keeps bothering me.

AR> JT> This is what I currently use:

AR> JT>   fread (
AR> JT>       s[r[i]->target].typeid,
AR> JT>       sizeof (short int), 1, f );
AR>...

AR>Hm ... I'd put everything on one line. It fits within my 74
AR>character right margin. But assuming it does not -- this is
AR>an example anyway ;-) -- I'd do:

My thoughts entirely (except I tend to have a 78 character right
margin).

AR>       fread( s[r[i]->target].typeid,
AR>              sizeof (short int), 1, f );

AR>In other words I'd indent a follow-up line. By _more_ than the usual 4
AR>characters for normal indentation.

Seconded! I indent follow up lines to 8 character increments.

George

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