Subject: Re: CVS commit: syssrc
To: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@netbsd.org>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@most.weird.com>
List: source-changes
Date: 09/29/1999 10:29:37
[ On , September 28, 1999 at 22:28:24 (-0700), Chris G. Demetriou wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: CVS commit: syssrc
>
> I've never really been convinced that that's The Right Thing, but i've
> never been convinced it was wrong, either. (other parts of KNF,
> though... 8-)
Personally I've always found the use of a <tab> to be highly
objectionable anywhere that it would appear to be a single space under
normal de-facto standard 8-spaces-per-tabstop situations.
In this particular case I've never ever been shown any rational for
using a tab. The only one I've ever been able to imagine is that if you
have a collection of #define and #undef lines interleaved together then
it might be nice to have the second token alligned and thus a tab before
every token would be the most consistent form. However I never mix a
group of #define and #undef lines.
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