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Subject:Re: Coding style From:Laura Johnson <lauraj -at- CND -dot- HP -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 17 Oct 1994 21:33:09 GMT
Aahz (aahz -at- netcom -dot- com) wrote:
: K&R style
: int foo ( bar, baz );
: long bar; /* This does something */
: int baz; /* This does something else */
I don't like this because "real people don't code this way" ... if your
"real customers" do code this way, this would be OK.
: "standard" ANSI style
: int foo
: (
: long bar, /* This does something */
: int baz /* This does something else */
: );
I like this. Clean, simple, plenty of space.
: "compact" ANSI style
: int foo(
: long bar, /* This does something */
: int baz); /* This does something else */
I find (now that you ask) that a lot of docs I've inherited look like
this. It's OK. If I had to "hack my own path" from scratch, I'd use your
"standard ANSI", though.
: (It's nice working at a place where I can hack my own path, but I wish
: the stones weren't so hard ...)
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Laura Johnson
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Hewlett Packard NSMD
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