Coding style

edscott wilson garcia edscott at imp.mx
Sat Mar 15 03:03:36 CET 2003


El vie, 14-03-2003 a las 15:28, Olivier Fourdan escribió:
> 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...

So how about standarizing on writing the best code, without regard to
style?

;-)

Edscott


> 
> - 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.
> 
> On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 21:59, Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> > On Fri, 14, Mar 2003, edscott wilson garcia wrote:
> > 
> > > El vie, 14-03-2003 a las 13:28, Jens Luedicke escribió:
> > > > On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 14:24, Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > Anything important to note in addition? Opinion? Olivier, is that OK?
> > > > 
> > > > indenting: tabs instead of spaces. 
> > > > 
> > > > and I prefer:
> > > > 
> > > > if () {
> > > > } else {
> > > > }
> > > 
> > > I do this a lot for short if/else blocks, along with KNF for large
> > > blocks. But this is a rather minor detail for me. What is more
> > > important, IMHO, is that indentation be context sensitive, like the
> > > following line: 
> > > 
> > > gtk_tree_store_set((GtkTreeStore *) treemodel, target,
> > > 		 MODE_COLUMN,mode_string(en->st->st_mode),
> > > 		 DATE_COLUMN,time_string(en->st->st_mtime),
> > > 		 GROUP_COLUMN, group,
> > > 		 OWNER_COLUMN, owner, 
> > > 		 SIZE_COLUMN, tag, 
> > > 		 -1);
> > > 
> > > Instead of having it all run through in a single loong line.
> > 
> > ACK. I'd really like to see people stop writing lines with 120 and more
> > characters.
> > 
> > regards,
> > Benedikt
> -- 
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