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Re: Uncle Bob on Coding Standards

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From:
Matt Sergeant
Date:
December 14, 2004 06:38
Subject:
Re: Uncle Bob on Coding Standards
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BB89AB11-4DCA-11D9-AEF3-000A95AC67AA@messagelabs.com
On 14 Dec 2004, at 11:26, Clayton, Nik wrote:

>>> http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?UncleBobOnCodingStandards
>>>
>>> On coding standards:
>
> I'd add an additional:
>
>   * Make sure your tools enforce them, and make complying with them
>     as simple as possible.
>
> To be honest, I don't care if someone's house style is for TAB to 
> indent
> 2, 4, or 8 characters; how much second level indentations are indented 
> by;
> whether or not braces cuddle 'else'; and so on.
>
> That's something the editor can care about.  When I hit the TAB key it
> should just do whatever the house style requires.

But what about when I'm using notepad.exe???


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