On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 4:09 PM, David Kelly dke...@hiwaay.net wrote:
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:46:26AM +0200, deeptec...@gmail.com wrote:
Tabs are better, because they allow the programmer to specify the
desired width, and is dynamically changable at any time.
Spaces are better because
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Lowell Gilbert wrote:
Chuck Robey chu...@telenix.org writes:
Lowell Gilbert wrote:
Chuck Robey chu...@telenix.org writes:
The only real sin is not sticking to one style per project.
Or at *least* per file.
Umm, no, per project. Folks are too
William Gordon Rutherdale wrote:
[...] I don't think I've ever written the word dedent in my
life, at least until this paragraph. In fact, I'm not convinced
that it IS a word.
It's a technical term, sometimes used in the context of
code editors to denote the opposite of indent.
For
Oliver Fromme o...@lurza.secnetix.de writes:
William Gordon Rutherdale wrote:
[...] I don't think I've ever written the word dedent in my life,
at least until this paragraph. In fact, I'm not convinced that it
IS a word.
It's a technical term,
No, the correct term is outdent.
DES
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i always thought it was undent;
equal length,
minimum diff.
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Oliver Fromme wrote:
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
Oliver Fromme o...@lurza.secnetix.de writes:
William Gordon
What about exdent or unident? Surely we should discuss these terms for
describing an un-dented indent?
http://ask.metafilter.com/7214/The-opposite-of-indent
Taken from Wikipedia:
Debates over where to indent, whether to use spaces or tabs, and how many
spaces to use are often hotly debated among
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
Oliver Fromme wrote:
[...]
What's bad is when several styles are mixed, e. g.
Of course. I don't think anyone disagrees with that.
I assume that every modern editor can be configured that
way.
Even old fashioned ones can, take the mcedit
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 18:03:01 +0200 (CEST), Oliver Fromme
o...@lurza.secnetix.de wrote:
Uhm. I wouldn't call joe old fashioned. It has a long
history, but it's not older than, say, BSD. Would you call
BSD old fashioned?
IF I do, you may throw an AS/400 at my head. :-) Allthough
BSD has a
2009/4/2 Oliver Fromme o...@lurza.secnetix.de:
Would you call
BSD old fashioned?
No.
I would call it old-fashion.
In keeping with the in/ex/un/out-dent theme, of course.
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On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
KAYVEN RIESE ka...@sfsu.edu writes:
Dag-Erling Smørgrav d...@des.no writes:
Have you considered combining the two (computer science and
molecular biology) and going into bioinformatics?
disaster. data mining people don't give a @*# about the
(Note: Redirected to -chat.)
William Gordon Rutherdale wrote:
There is a very logical reason in C for wanting to put the opening brace
of an 'if' statement on a separate line: preprocessor statements.
The preprocessor is one of the biggest mistakes in the design
of the C language. This
On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Oliver Fromme wrote:
Note: I've redirected this to -chat. This thread
does *not* belong on the -questions list.
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
William Gordon Rutherdale wrote:
In all of those cases, I simply press the Tab key to
indent, and the Backspace key to
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Lowell Gilbert wrote:
Chuck Robey chu...@telenix.org writes:
The only real sin is not sticking to one style per project.
Or at *least* per file.
Umm, no, per project. Folks are too pushed into errors when a project has 29
different styles. I
Chuck Robey chu...@telenix.org writes:
Lowell Gilbert wrote:
Chuck Robey chu...@telenix.org writes:
The only real sin is not sticking to one style per project.
Or at *least* per file.
Umm, no, per project. Folks are too pushed into errors when a project has 29
different styles.
If
KAYVEN RIESE ka...@sfsu.edu writes:
[...] I hold a BSCS from the late cretaceous of 1989. After that I
started studying molecular biology [...] having idioticaly tried to
get back into computer science [...]
Have you considered combining the two (computer science and molecular
biology) and
KAYVEN RIESE wrote:
On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Oliver Fromme wrote:
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
William Gordon Rutherdale wrote:
In all of those cases, I simply press the Tab key to
indent, and the Backspace key to dedent. There is no
need to change habits. The editor takes care of it.
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
KAYVEN RIESE ka...@sfsu.edu writes:
[...] I hold a BSCS from the late cretaceous of 1989. After that I
started studying molecular biology [...] having idioticaly tried to
get back into computer science [...]
Have you considered combining the
On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, William Gordon Rutherdale wrote:
KAYVEN RIESE wrote:
On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Oliver Fromme wrote:
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
William Gordon Rutherdale wrote:
In all of those cases, I simply press the Tab key to
indent, and the Backspace key to dedent. There is
KAYVEN RIESE ka...@sfsu.edu writes:
Dag-Erling Smørgrav d...@des.no writes:
Have you considered combining the two (computer science and
molecular biology) and going into bioinformatics?
disaster. data mining people don't give a @*# about the facts.
I'm not sure to whom you refer as data
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michael wrote:
Moved to FreeBSD-chat, all opinions really belong there.
Wojciech Puchar wrote:
Tabbing is the worst form of indentation. It is *much* better to use
spaces consistently.
The only real sin is not sticking to one style per
someprocedure(const int *X,const int *Y, const int *Z,int length) {
sorry no const near Z ;)
someworkhere(); coded_in_any_style_may_be_mess
}
example of BAD comments:
a=b+3; //adds 3 to b and stores result to a
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