Re: #define<TAB> in share/misc/style [was: CVS commit: src/share/misc]

"Greg A. Woods" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.general
Organization Planix, Inc.; Toronto, Ontario; Canada
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[ On Monday, February 24, 2003 at 15:00:58 (-0500), John Hawkinson wrote: ]
> Subject: #define<TAB> in share/misc/style [was: CVS commit: src/share/misc]
>
> I'm moving this discussion to [email protected], where I think it's
> more appropriate; I hadn't expected it to be quite as "popular."

I've never ever seen even the barest hint of reasonable rationale for
using a tab instead of a space beteen the "#define" and the macro name
which follows it.

(I say any claim that doing s/define/undef/ will make it look ugly is
bogus, especially since the likelyhood doing exactly that is about nil
in the majority of uses of #define.)

As for using one or more tabs after the macro name, well that makes
sense if one wishes to line up the values on a common column for a
number of adjacent definitions.  

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								Greg A. Woods

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