Standard Indentation etc.

[T. William Wells]

In article <129 at mole-end.UUCP> mat at mole-end.UUCP (Mark A Terribile) writes:
: Of course, if you are using a screen whose typeface is so poor that you have
: to lean 5'' close to it to read your program, then the 2-space indent is
: easily explained ;^}

Actually, I read the screen from about seven inches. I use eight
space tabs. I'm not wedded to eight, though until the standard method
of handling tabs changes I'll stick with it. And very small
indentations cause two problems:

    1) It is harder to verify that things line up: the close spacing
       makes it difficult to distinguish one vertical column from
       another.

    2) If you, as I do, write continuation lines as partially
       indented, checking out indentation is even harder.

I'd guess that the smallest indentation that avoids the above problems
is four spaces.

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Bill
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