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From: rwl@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Ray Lubinsky)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Standard Indentation etc.
Message-ID: <2891@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU>
Date: 22 Dec 88 05:10:09 GMT
References: <663@htsa.uucp> <832@husc6.harvard.edu> <2450@ficc.uu.net> <879@quintus.UUCP>
Organization: U.Va. CS in Charlottesville VA
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In article <879@quintus.UUCP>, ok@quintus.uucp (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
: 
> Where'd you get the hardware upgrade for the eyes?
> 8 columns is _way_ too big for an indentation increment.
> The range recommended by everyone except C let's-torture-test-the-eyes
> hackers is two to five columns for an indentation increment.

Once you get used to 8 column indents, anything else looks like its not
indented at all.  The structure of a function stands out clearly; less than
8 columns is fine for write-only source code, but its a bitch to read.

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