[haiku-development] Re: Coding guidelines

Thanks Jorge!

If someone knows good example files please point them to me.

Markku

On Fri, 2010-05-07 at 16:16 -0700, Jorge G. Mare wrote:
> On 05/07/2010 03:50 PM, Markku Hyppönen wrote:
> > I've been asked to change few files to follow the coding guidelines.
> > 
> > Document says that indent should be set to four spaces
> > and that a line must not have more than 80 columns but in the first
> > example indents seems to be mainly 8 character and there's also couple
> > of lines exceeding 80 columns.
> > 
> > It seems examples code is not valid, right?
> >   
> 
> If you are referring to the sample code under "Indenting and white
> space" in...
> 
> http://www.haiku-os.org/development/coding-guidelines
> 
> ...then you are pointing out the same problem already reported in
> ticket #5901 by Stippi.
> 
> One of the sysadmins responded that " a \t is interpreted as 8 spaces
> and this cannot be changed" and closed the ticket as invalid, but this
> is incorrect.
> 
> At least in the particular case of the Haiku website, it is possible
> to change the number of spaces per tab stop, and the solution was
> given in comments 2 and 3 of the same ticket:
> 
> http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/5901#comment:2
> http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/5901#comment:3
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jorge / aka Koki
>

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