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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by Ben Laurie <be...@algroup.co.uk> on 2000/12/03 23:24:59 UTC
Re: style giude, was Re: [PATCH] rotatelogs fix .. update
Brian Havard wrote:
>
> On Thu, 16 Nov 2000 22:32:04 -0600, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
>
> >> From: Tony Finch [mailto:dot@dotat.at]
> >> Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 9:53 PM
> >>
> >> I intend to commit this.
> >
> >Undoubtedly - but not without a vote here - this has been argued
> >to death in the past and for mostly good reasons. I'm -.5 for this
> >change, tabified code tends to get brutalized - especially when
> >we need mass edits. Further, your definition is wrong, tab advances
> >the column to 8 + (cur column mod 8), not 8 spaces, as you worded it.
>
> Agreed, the style guide shouldn't be changed without a vote and I'm -1
> (vote not veto) on this change.
To drag up an old issue ... I'm +1 on this: it documents a fact of life.
Cheers,
Ben.
>
> >> Index: styleguide.html
> >> ===================================================================
> >> RCS file: /home/cvs/apache-devsite/styleguide.html,v
> >> retrieving revision 1.7
> >> diff -u -r1.7 styleguide.html
> >> --- styleguide.html 1998/04/20 05:32:47 1.7
> >> +++ styleguide.html 2000/11/17 03:48:04
> >> @@ -31,8 +31,8 @@
> >> following line at the start of a function definition.
> >> </LI>
> >> <LI>Code inside a block (whether surrounded by braces or not) is
> >> - indented by four space characters. Tab characters are not
> >> - used. Comments are indented to the same level as the surrounding
> >> + indented by four space characters. Tab characters are
> >> equivalent to
> >> + eight spaces. Comments are indented to the same level as
> >> the surrounding
> >> code.
> >> </LI>
> >> <LI>Closing braces are always on a separate line from surrounding
>
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