Re: AWS Coding Styles (and about boring plain-linear text files in the end)

[Bill Findlay <news@findlayw.plus.com>]

On 17/01/2011 05:07, in article op.vpfsjkfdule2fv@garhos, "Yannick Duch�ne
(Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> wrote:
 
> Ah, a big one deal for me this one� (the one which follows)
> 
> In �3.1 Character Set and Separators� :
> 
>> A line should never be longer than 79 characters,
>> not counting the line separator.
> 
>     I fully agree with this is some sense (just that I use 78
>     characters instead of 79).

Why 78/79 and not 80, as I have always used?

Let me guess: badly-implemented terminals/emulators wrap on the 80th
character without checking to see whether it is CR/LF, so you get spurious
double-line spacing if all 80 columns are used?

I follow nearly all of the other guidelines, without having seen
style-guide.html before, so of course, I strongly approve of them. 8-)

FWIW the ones I don't follow are:

    > All local subprograms in a subprogram or package body
    > should be declared before the first local subprogram
    > body.

That seems to me to add pointless verbosity. I declare subprograms iff it is
necessary, and no earlier than necessary.

In �6.2 If Statements� :

    > Complex conditions in if-statements are indented two
    > characters

I use the same indent (by 3) as for every other nesting (with short-circuit
forms) and no indent if the phrases are parallel (with and/or/xor).

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