On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 8:08 AM, OvermindDL1 <overminddl1@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 7:27 AM, Stewart, Robert <Robert.Stewart@sig.com> wrote:
PS Using 2 space indentation reduces the risk of running over the 80 width, so is my preference.
Some find two too small to visually align vertically, but four limits indentation depth, so we've used three for years. (Gasp! Yes, three isn't a power or multiple of two, but it works well.)
I have always been curious about that. To me it makes *no* sense to use spaces for indentation. I always use tabs for indentation and spaces for alignment, my reasoning is that you can set tabs to be any size you want in your editor, one space if you wish even, and spaces for alignment just makes sense, for example: class myClass : public anotherClass { public: float f_;
myClass(std::string s // assume we need to wrap due to being too long ,float f) // aligned with spaces after being tabbed equal to the above line :anotherClass(s) // indented with tabs ,f_(f) { // do stuff, two tabs } }
And of course the email client converted my tabs to 8 spaces, but you get the idea...