Coding style

[Scott Robert Ladd]

Clap-clap-clap-clap! Give the man a hand! :)

I'm just a casual reader here, but I *love* the way you phrased this (and
not just because I code in the same style, for the same reasons. ;}

..Scott

> -----Original Message-----
> From: xfce4-dev-admin at xfce.org [mailto:xfce4-dev-admin at xfce.org]On
> Behalf Of Olivier Fourdan
> Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 16:29
> To: xfce4-dev at xfce.org
> Subject: Re: Coding style
>
> Gentlemen,
>
> I did not force anybody to use my coding style, but if you guys want to
> have to standardize on a coding style please use the one I proposed,
> because I won't change my style anyway...
>
> - I do prefer to have an instruction per line, even if it's 120 car
> wide. I don't use neither vi nor emacs and my text editor has a horiz
> scrollbar.
> - I use curly braces even if there is only one instruction after an
> if/while/for because I find it easier to read
> - I expand the source because I don't want tabs. Some editors use 4 or 8
> car for a tab and that really break readability
> - I use 4 cars per indentation.
> - I really don't care about what the people who write the kernel do :)
>
> Now that's a take it or leave it offer. I you don't like that, use
> whatever you want, but don't ask for a standard coding style then.
>
> Cheers
> Olivier.