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From: ea08+@andrew.cmu.edu (Eric A. Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Coding Standards.
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Date: 8 Dec 90 21:40:44 GMT
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>From: rmartin@clear.com (Bob Martin)
>The alternative of not demanding the comments on closing braces
>exposes you to the danger of a function that has grown to span
>(god forbid) multiple pages and has no comments telling you where
>the braces line up.

This is why you can run programs like gnu-emacs which will auto format
your code for you, and tell you if things don't match up.  But I
happen to be of the theory that a function should never be longer than
a screen, there is seldom any point, and breaking it up allows some
amount of reusability.
         -Eric
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