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From: beres@cadnetix.COM (Tim Beres)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Latest indent request
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Date: 14 Dec 88 23:26:02 GMT
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In article <9135@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>Presumably the One True Brace Style refers to that used by K&R 1st Ed.
>But note that K&R are not dogmatic about it..
>
>ANSI C does not dictate style.

Neither are we dogmatic (Cadnetix).  We have coding guidelines, but these
do not attempt to dictact the OTBS.  When I first joined the graphics 
group, I noticed that everyone was using the OTWBS (one true WRONG brace
style);  it seems that it had carried over from the dawn of graphics code
(about 4 years ago, for C).  Well, being the do-gooder that I am, I
went and indented (1) a couple of modules.  Upon discovery of this good
deed, I was asked to show what changes I had made to the modules, via
RCS diff.  Uh-oh.

I now use existing style wherever appropriate.  Naturally, I use my
vastly superior (-: style when writing new code.  BTW, I use:

	if (detroit_lions_ever_win){
	    /*
	     * This path almost never exercised, but it did happen in 1957.
	     */
	    joyous_celebration = 1;
	}

			Tim 

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