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- From: mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: The Correct Way To Write C if-Statements
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.101654.21932@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 10:16:54 GMT
- Article-I.D.: thunder.1992Nov12.101654.21932
- References: <140742@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> <2184@ontek.com>
- Organization: McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines
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- In article <2184@ontek.com>, mikey@ontek.com (euphausia superba) writes:
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- > Establishing a consistent, company-wide style of code formatting
- > results in a loss of information. [...]
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- > 3. Some anal-retents, when given a hunk of code to maintain or
- > enhance, will reformat it before beginning work on on it anyway,
- > erasing the style-signatures of the previous authors and wasting
- > time in the process.
-
- As onje of the group you slur as "anal-retents" here, I'd like to point
- out that perhaps there's a *reason* for this action, beyond just
- looking to make trouble, beyond even the aesthetics of mixing code
- styles. In my case, the reason I reformat code is usually that the
- existing brace placement is such as to cause the C-mode I use to place
- my code with its left margin off around column 60 or so.
-
- der Mouse
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- mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
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