Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!rbutterworth
From: rbutterworth@watmath.waterloo.edu (Ray Butterworth)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: asymmetric layout
Message-ID: <17634@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Date: 18 Mar 88 15:24:40 GMT
References: <1136@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> <25617@cca.CCA.COM>
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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> 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  */

Of course another thing to keep in mind is that not every site
or every user believes that "tabs every 8" is a universal truth.
That's what the article looked like when I read it, and it failed
to convince me that this format was better than the original.

(You should see how some people's fancy .signature lines appear :-)