Scott Preece wrote:
[1]
Outside of comments, documentation and except in Kconfig, spaces are
never
used for indentation, and the above example is deliberately broken.
---
I realize it isn't text you added, but what's that supposed to mean?
Surely the 8-character indents are made up of spaces. Does it mean
No, the 8-character indents are made of one ASCII TAB character.
"spaces other than 8-space blocks"? In any case, how does it synch
with the following chapter's statement that continuations " are placed
substantially to the right" - isn't that done with spaces, too?
That's usually (preferably) done with tab(s). Sometimes it is done
with a few spaces instead. (and we put up with it :)
Or am I just totally spacing out on what was meant?
I take [1] to mean that this example:
if (condition) do_this;
do_something_everytime;
is broken in at least 3 ways:
1/ do_this(); should be on a separate line;
2/ do_something_everytime() should not be indented more than the "if"
above it; and
3/ *if* do_something_everytime() were to be indented more than it is,
it should be done with a tab, not spaces.
--
~Randy
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