Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!mcnc!xanth!nic.MR.NET!umn-cs!ns!ddb From: ddb@ns.UUCP (David Dyer-Bennet) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Proposal for a scientific look at C style choices Message-ID: <1045@ns.UUCP> Date: 29 Dec 88 17:10:09 GMT References: <132@mole-end.UUCP> Reply-To: ddb@ns.UUCP (David Dyer-Bennet) Organization: Terrabit Software Lines: 25 In article <132@mole-end.UUCP> mat@mole-end.UUCP (Mark A Terribile) writes: :Likewise, I generally write : : if( a->op == XNES_step : && a->size <= XNES_bufsize : || a->op == XNES_fix : && a->size + a->leftover <= XNES_bufsize ) : { : . . . I've long had a pet theory that, for every legal point at which a line could be broken, there is a "correct" indent for the resulting continuation line. It looks like you may have some similar strange ideas. However, your strange idea violates one of MY basic concepts of code formatting: indentation is something that takes place between the left margin and the first character on the line, NOWHERE ELSE. (Flame retardant: this is my opinion; this is ONLY my opinion. If this had been objective reality, you would have done it my way and we wouldn't be having this discussion.) -- -- David Dyer-Bennet ...!{rutgers!dayton | amdahl!ems | uunet!rosevax}!umn-cs!ns!ddb ddb@Lynx.MN.Org, ...{amdahl,hpda}!bungia!viper!ddb Fidonet 1:282/341.0, (612) 721-8967 hst/2400/1200/300