OpenEuphoria

Re: win32lib

• Posted by jiri babor <jiri_babor at HOTMAIL.COM> Sep 29, 2000
• 640 views

As you can imagine, David, I was fairly determined not to take your bait...

And to make it even tougher for myself, I freely agree with almost all your
comments on coding styles, even with your comments on comments!

Let me add just my pet hate: for goodness' sake, people, turn the
'tabs-to-spaces-on-save' option in your lousy editors ON! (By the way, why
would anybody  want anything but FOUR spaces per tab is beyond me, but I
have already seen 1, 2 and 3, and also 8 seems to be very popular, probably
a forgotten default.) If you don't, you will not recognize your own code
when it is loaded into some else's editor!

Now I must admit I used 2 and 3 space tabs in my darker periods, in pascal
and in C. In Euphoria you simply cannot justify anything less than four. And
if you really often run over the right margin, then obviously you are not
factoring your routines enough. And that's a crime in a language which has
some of the cheapest calls.

And lastly, perhaps, a friendly advice to our Ferdinands and Thomases:
comment often, and indent properly - it will help you immensely to
understand your own code!

jiri

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