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From: sam@delftcc.UUCP (Sam Kendall)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: Indentation instead of braces
Message-ID: <147@delftcc.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 30-May-86 09:01:05 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 30 09:01:05 1986
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Organization: Delft Consulting Corp., New York
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Summary: You don't need backslashes for long lines.

kwh@bentley.UUCP writes:
> utcsri!greg writes:
> >What about the following sort of thing, though ? ( this is
> >how I would write it in normal C ):
> >			/* [example abridged by sam@delftcc.UUCP] */
> >			if( total_confusion_estimated > MAX_CONFUSION )
> >				printf(
> >"Well I think you ought to know that I am getting really confused by %s\n",
> >					reason_for_confusion[WOMBAT]
> >				);
> 
> No problem.  Remove the braces, leave the indentation alone, and tack a
> backslash onto the first three lines of the printf statement.

You don't need the backslashes.  Indentation should be significant
only before a statement, or something like that.  So indentation in
the middle of an expression, such as in the printf above, is ignored.

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