[ODE] Standard for formatting the code ?

John Miles jmiles at pop.net
Mon Apr 10 13:49:44 MST 2006


Actually, it's always somewhat irritating to see Unix-style formatting in a
source file.  Come on, guys, spend one byte per line to include a
linefeed... and no tabs, please.  It's no longer 1979, and 4116s are about a
nickel apiece on eBay nowadays, if your system needs a RAM upgrade.

-- jm

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ode-bounces at q12.org [mailto:ode-bounces at q12.org]On Behalf Of
> Rodrigo Hernandez
> Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 1:06 PM
> To: Remi Ricard
> Cc: ode at q12.org
> Subject: Re: [ODE] Standard for formatting the code ?
>
>
>
> I don't think there is one, and because of the diversity of the
> contributors, I think it would be hard to stablish one,
> Visual Studio for example uses DOS formating (carriage-return/newline
> combo), and tab characters instead of say 4 to 8 spaces like emacs does.
>
> To me, its better to use UNIX style text files with empty lines at the
> end (avoids a warning on GCC) and spaces instead of tabs though.
>
> Remi Ricard wrote:
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