Standard Indentation etc.

Ray Lubinsky rwl at uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU
Thu Dec 22 15:10:09 AEST 1988


In article <879 at quintus.UUCP>, ok at 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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