On 10/03/16 06:51, Simon Lees wrote:
>
>
> On 03/10/2016 02:14 AM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
>> On Wed, 9 Mar 2016 15:44:57 +0100 Simon Lees <sfl...@suse.de> said:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 03/09/2016 08:29 AM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 9 Mar 2016 17:08:54 +1000 David Seikel <onef...@gmail.com> said:
>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, 9 Mar 2016 15:39:45 +0900 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)
>>>>> <ras...@rasterman.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>> * fixed indentation (4 spaces) or not fixed
>>>>>>
>>>>>> i personally think 2 spaces is fine. 4 is just "too much". the reason
>>>>>> is most monospace fonts are taller than they are wide so "2" ends up
>>>>>> a nice diagonal like:
>>>>>
>>>>> Aren't you the guy that made 3 space indenting the standard around
>>>>> here? ;-P
>>>>
>>>> :-P~
>>>
>>> Well 4 is what most of the civilized world has agreed / standardized on
>>> so I guess its not going to be that :P
>>>
>>> On a more serious note, as someone who's brain is more visual spacial
>>> oriented and much prefers and finds it much easyer to look at shapes and
>>> colors rather then a wall of text 4 is significantly easier to read but
>>> if were going to keep doing the crazyness of indenting braces then 2 is
>>> fine because it really ends up being 4 ie
>>>
>>> if (bob.isABogan())
>>> {
>>> doSomething();
>>> }
>>>
>>> is pretty similar to what a "Normal person" would do
>>>
>>> if (bob.isABogan())
>>> {
>>> doSomething();
>>> }
>>
>> since there are no {}'s then you end up with (with 4 spaces):
>>
>> blahblah(xxx)
>> blah2whatever(yyy)
>> blah3boo(zzz)
>> wootwoot(x)
>> boobooboo(7)
>> weee(y)
>> abracadabra(hey)
>>
>> with 2 it just looks nicer:
>>
>> blahblah(xxx)
>> blah2whatever(yyy)
>> blah3boo(zzz)
>> wootwoot(x)
>> boobooboo(7)
>> weee(y)
>> abracadabra(hey)
>>
>> each indent comes out at a "visually" approximate 45 degrees due to general
>> font sizing. also it's far nicer on the typer if they have to indent - hit
>> space twice not 4 times. sure you COULD modify your editor to make tab == 4
>> spaces and force that BUT then you break your editor for the rest of the unix
>> world that has agreed on tab == 8 spaces. windows thinks tab == 4 spaces. so
>> -
>> make people hit space 4 times instead of 2? why? that's a bit silly.
>
> Normally people don't hit space 4 times, normally they have there editor
> configured so that the tab key inserts 4 spaces rather then a \t :)
>
> Is the following still legal syntax, as I find that much easier to read
> (Not sure if i'll ever have to read / write it though.
>
> blahblah(xxx)
>
> blah2whatever(yyy)
> blah3boo(zzz)
>
> wootwoot(x)
> boobooboo(7)
> weee(y)
>
> abracadabra(hey)
>
The plan is to allow for manual editing, and I agree, this is much nicer
than 2 spaces. I think 2 spaces are too compact.
--
Tom.
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