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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Standard Indentation etc.
Message-ID: <5181@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 16 Dec 88 01:53:29 GMT
References: <663@htsa.uucp> <832@husc6.harvard.edu> <22249@apple.Apple.COM> <5358@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <5358@boulder.Colorado.EDU> swarbric@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Frank
Swarbrick) writes:
>While we're on the subject, how about switch statements?

Over-indentation eats up precious space.  Try this:

     switch (expression) {
     case 'a':             /* lots of space here for a comment */
	statement
	...
	break;
     case 'b':
	statement
	...
	break;
     } /* switch */

Having each 'case' keyword aligned with the initial 'switch' keyword is
similar to having 'else' aligned with 'if'.  We create a comb, and pack
the C code in the gaps.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!dhesi