Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cca!g-rh
From: g-rh@cca.CCA.COM (Richard Harter)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: asymmetric layout
Message-ID: <25617@cca.CCA.COM>
Date: 16 Mar 88 20:43:33 GMT
References: <1136@PT.CS.CMU.EDU>
Reply-To: g-rh@CCA.CCA.COM.UUCP (Richard Harter)
Organization: Computer Corp. of America, Cambridge, MA
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In article <1136@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> edw@IUS1.CS.CMU.EDU (Eddie Wyatt) writes:
>
	.... A message praising the merits of aligning = signs in
	assignments vertically.

It is my opinion, and sometimes practicing style that vertical alignment
is a *good* thing.  Another example is in declarations, e.g.

struct athing		**ptr;		/* Say what ptr is		*/
struct bthing		 *aptr;		/* Another explanation		*/
char			  c;		/* Names all start in same col	*/
char			 *cc;		/* And are alphabetized in type	*/
int			  i;		/* Types sorted by name length	*/

And so on.  However there is a problem with assignments that Eddie does
not mention -- indentation can mess up the alignment by runing over
the assignment column.

-- 

In the fields of Hell where the grass grows high
Are the graves of dreams allowed to die.
	Richard Harter, SMDS  Inc.