Re: Lindent fixed to match reality

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

On Thu, 2004-01-29 20:37:07 +0000, Erik Hensema <erik@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote in message <slrnc1irnj.2is.erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Matt Mackall (mpm@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:

> You just nicely broke 'find . -name *.c | xargs grep ^foo'.

That's what I like, too:)

> Why make functions harder to find? It's just one line... Being
> able to navigate the source tree with standard unix utils is a
> Good Thing.
> 
> Even better, IMHO:
> 
> void *
> foo(void)

...which may even help you preparing header files' declarations if you
did a long shot of coding without adding the declarations in time!

> Yes, that takes a full three lines. But within the function body
> you can just reverse search for ^{ and you're at the function
> declaration. Not nearly as useful as grepping for a function
> name, but still a nice thing to have, IMHO.

It's quite useful!

> > b) (no -bs) "sizeof(foo)" rather than "sizeof (foo)"
> Agreed.

I prefer sizeof with a space, but that's pure religion...

> > c) (-ncs) "(void *)foo" rather than "(void *) foo"
> Agreed.

...as well as with casts.

That's all sooo much religion. Let's keep coding and not argue about
indention. Just keep *consistend* within a single file...

MfG, JBG

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