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From: rwl@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Ray Lubinsky)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Standard indentation?
Message-ID: <2865@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU>
Date: 13 Dec 88 15:48:14 GMT
References: <641@htsa.uucp> <6580@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Organization: U.Va. CS in Charlottesville VA
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In article <6580@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>, cquenel@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Chris (i = --i++;) Quenelle) writes:
> In article <641@htsa.uucp> fransvo@htsa.UUCP (Frans van Otten) writes:
> >
> >#define then    /*  as white space; see below  */
> >
> >	if (a > 10)
> >	  then putchar('1');
> >	  else putchar('2');
> 
> Bravo!!    Me Too!!
> whenever the statements are blocks, I omit the then, though.
> I vote strongly for this.  The symmetry scans very easily for me.

Hey!  Why is this posted to comp.lang.c rather than
comp.lang.some-language-I-invented-yesterday-cause-its-neato?

Seriously, folks, having to wade through ad hoc "dialects" like this makes a
C programmer's stomach churn.  Source code is a medium of communication to
other programmers as well as your future self when you have to maintain that
code.  Offbeat dialects involving fake keywords just stand in the way of
comprehension.

(There, I feel better :-)

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