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SubjectRe: coding style
[Kok, Auke - Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 11:05:07AM -0700]
| Chris Friesen wrote:
| >Consider two people, one with tabs as 8 characters and one with tabs as
| >4 characters. If person A aligns using a tab plus a space (giving 9
| >characters), then the alignmnet will be all screwed up for person B (who
| >will see 5 characters of alignment).
| >
| >The only rule that works (setting aside bad tools) is:
| >
| >"use tabs for indents and spaces for alignment"
| >
| >If that means you need to use two dozen spaces, then so be it.
|
| it would be awesome if the checkpatch.pl script could distinguish between
| indentation and alignment space usage - this is going to cause major
| confusion with patch submitters.
|
| I personally think that the sentence
|
| "use tabs for indents and spaces for alignment"

Absoulutely agreed with you! There sould be someting making strict rule
over alignment (as it done for the tabs size).

|
| should also be in the CodingStyle document to avoid confusion.
|
| Auke
|

Cyrill

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