Messages in this thread |  | | | From | (Linus Torvalds) | | Subject | Re: Coding Style | | Date | 19 Jan 2001 21:34:42 -0800 |
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In article <200101200046.f0K0kgj201065@saturn.cs.uml.edu>, Albert D. Cahalan <acahalan@cs.uml.edu> wrote: >> Tabs are 8 characters so NO tabs should be used in ANY source file what >... >> Rationale: Tabs force your code out to the right edge of the display >> leaving no room for comments. You don't need great big gaping spaces to >> delineate the start and end of a block, TWO spaces do this just fine. > >Correct, because adjustable tab width is a myth. The comments don't >line up when you muck with tab width.
Read the Linux CodingStyle.
Tabs are 8 characters. They are NOT adjustable. Never have been, never will be. Anybody who thinks tabs are anything but 8 chars apart is just wrong. It's that simple.
And two spaces is not enough. If you write code that needs comments at the end of a line, your code is crap. It's that easy. There is _never_ a reason to comment a single line, and multi-line comments the the right of multi-line code to the left is a recipe for disaster. In short, you don't do comments to the right of code - you do them _before_ code.
Linus
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