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- Path: sparky!uunet!ontek!mikey
- From: mikey@ontek.com (euphausia superba)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: The Correct Way To Write C if-Statements
- Summary: This subject should be in everyone's kill file by now anyway.
- Message-ID: <2186@ontek.com>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 20:06:06 GMT
- References: <140742@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> <2184@ontek.com> <1992Nov12.101654.21932@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
- Organization: Ontek Corporation -- Laguna Hills, California
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- In comp.lang.c, mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse) writes:
- | In article <2184@ontek.com>, mikey@ontek.com (euphausia superba) writes:
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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,
- |
- | 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.
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- I humbly suggest that your editor's C-mode is a little bijt buggy.
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- the krill
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