Josef Grosch via Dng said on Sun, 1 Aug 2021 14:58:18 -0700

>On 8/1/21 12:50 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
>> wirelessduck--- via Dng said on Sun, 1 Aug 2021 22:43:35 +1000
>>
>>>> On 1 Aug 2021, at 21:56, Hendrik Boom <hendrik@???>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 01:49:46PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
>>>>> Josef Grosch via Dng said on Thu, 29 Jul 2021 15:32:05 -0700
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Another suggestion I have is to use the variable and method
>>>>>> naming convention that java uses. I like the way it looks and I
>>>>>> think camel case is more readable than snake case.
>>>>> This reminds me of something not yet in the outline. The
>>>>> originating author should place, in comments, near the top, his
>>>>> or her syntax conventions including naming conventions, brace
>>>>> placements if not Python, spaces or tabs.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm hidiously guilty of using violating my own conventions (or not
>>>>> having any), so I should make that document at the start of a
>>>>> project. Matter of fact, I should make it BEFORE my next project.
>>>>> Naturally, one such stylesheet must be made for Python, another
>>>>> for C, etc.
>>>>>
>>>>> In an ideal world, here's how I'd do C blocks:
>>>>>

>>>>> if(mybool)
>>>>>    {
>>>>>    do_my_stuff()
>>>>>    }  
>>>> I tend to use
>>>> if(mybool)
>>>>   { do_my_stuff();
>>>>     do_other_stuff);
>>>>   }

>>>>
>>>> I really believe matching braces should be on the same line, or,
>>>> failing that, at the same level of indentation; i.e., above one
>>>> another.
>>>>
>>>> And I'd like the compile to warn me of deviations from that.
>>>>
>>>> -- hendrik
>>>>
>>>>> However, I do it the way Vim preformats for me, to make my life
>>>>> easier:
>>>>>

>>>>> if(mybool){
>>>>>    do_my_stuff()
>>>>> }

>>>>>

>>>>> #ifndef AUTHOR
>>>>>    char * AUTHOR = "SteveT"
>>>>> #endif

>>>>>
>>>>> AUTHOR
>>>>>
>>>>> Steve Litt
>>> Just use indent(1) and forget about all stying problems? I prefer
>>> `indent -kr`, none of that GNU styling craziness!!
>>>
>>> https://manpages.debian.org/buster/indent/indent.1.en.html
>> I just spent 2 hours trying out indent. As far as I can tell, -bli
>> doesn't work, and I could find no way to put statements in block at
>> the same level with the block's parentheses. So what I want is this:
>>

>> int myfunc()
>>     {
>>     do_something();
>>     do_more();
>>     if(mybool)
>>        {
>>        do_special()
>>        }
>>     }

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>> SteveT
>>
>
>It looks like you are trying to get what was once called the
>Whitesmiths style.
>
>
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentation_style#Whitesmiths_style

It is indeed Whitesmith style. I learned it at Santa Monica College's
Pascal course, and when I busted into programming professionally, I
used Whitesmith Pascal so everyone used Whitesmith style, except with
"begin" and "end" instead of braces.

First time I saw the beginning brace at the end of the if() or
declaration was in the Linux world, and I almost barfed. But because
the beginning brace at the end of the if() or declartion was default
for Vim, I started using beginning brace at end.

I still think that for a language that has a begin and end for a block,
Whitesmith is best. For a language that has stuff like "endwhile" or
"endif" or "fi", beginning brace at end of if() is what I prefer.

>
>
>Back when the earth was still cooling, 1991 or so, I worked at
>Motorola in Chicago and this was the preferred coding style for the
>project I was a member of. Configuring indent was always a matter of
>trail and error and the docs could be better.  Using a config file,
>~/.indent.pro made things easier. I might still have a copy of that
>file somewhere, I'll look.

I'd love to see it!

Thanks,

SteveT

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