Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: All Developers!

[Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org>]

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On Sat, 2001-11-10 at 23:14, Aron Griffis wrote:
> Daniel Robbins wrote:	[Sat Nov 10 2001, 01:24:42PM EST]
> > 1) Use one tab per indent
> > 
> > 2) Put comments on separate lines
> > 
> > 3) Avoid using "/" line continuation characters and use long lines instead.
> 
> I don't care about 1 and 2, but I agree with Chouser about long lines.
> I don't mind terribly when I have to edit an existing ebuild with long
> lines, but *please* don't ask me to write them like that.
> 
> Continuations can make the code more understandable when used
> appropriately.  And it's easy to write continuations that don't have any
> problem with developers' tabbing preferences:
> 
> 	./configure \
> 		--prefix=/usr \
> 		--mandir=/usr/share/man \
> 		--infodir=/usr/share/info
> 
> This might be considered overuse of line continuations, but it makes my
> point; the code is readable, fits in a standard terminal, and has no
> issues with tabs.
> 
> Aron
> 

im ok with this, much better than one line, and solve the align problem
(although not as pretty ;-)


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Martin Schlemmer
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team Developer
Cape Town, South Africa


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