[Jan Engelhardt - Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 09:31:27PM +0200]
|
| On Jun 15 2007 12:21, Kok, Auke wrote:
| > Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
| >> [Jan Engelhardt - Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 09:10:49PM +0200]
| >> | On Jun 15 2007 11:03, Randy Dunlap wrote:
| >> | > >
| >> | > > "use tabs for indents and spaces for alignment"
| >> | > >
| >> | > > If that means you need to use two dozen spaces, then so be it.
| >> | >
| >> | >I don't think that's what that rule means, but I didn't write it,
| >> | >so I'm not absolutely sure about it.
| >> | >
| >> | >but we know that tab stops are every 8th character, not 4 :)
| >> |
| >> | Hardly.
| >> |
| >> Jan, as I see from CodingStyle:
| >>
| >> "Tabs are 8 characters, and thus indentations are also 8 characters."
| >>
| >> Actually it would be perfect to get strict rules also for math. and log.
| >> operators being splitted on several lines:
| >
| > this doesn't say anything about alignment, which was his point :)
|
| Well tabs should _never_ be assumed to be 8, and in this regard, as I
| see it, CodingStyle has a bug. Tabs are there so that the user can set
| their width according to _their_ taste, simply so that both sides,
|
| from CodingStyle:
| Tabs are 8 characters, and thus indentations are also 8
| characters. There are heretic movements that try to make
| indentations 4 (or even 2!) characters deep, and that is akin
| to trying to define the value of PI to be 3.
|
| Linus (did he wrote that part?) and the heretics both can have their fun
| without impacting each other. If we wanted to force the user to have
| exactly 8 screen blanks, we should use spaces throughout.
|
| (And BTW, int pi = 3.141592 _is_ going to be 3 ;-) and floating point
| is mostly an agreed no-go in kernel anyway, even if it's supported.)
|
|
|
| Jan
| --
|
Dunno who wrote that part :(. Jan, look:
Now, some people will claim that having 8-character indentations makes
the code move too far to the right, and makes it hard to read on a
80-character terminal screen. The answer to that is that if you need
more than 3 levels of indentation, you're screwed anyway, and should fix
your program.
your opinion? Is it a bug too? Don't get me wrong I'm just trying to clarify
coding style.
Cyrill
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