[rescue] Python > 3.6 on Solaris 10

Phil Stracchino phils at caerllewys.net
Mon Oct 18 11:11:10 CDT 2021


On 10/18/21 5:42 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
> I had a small epiphany about the indentation thing a while ago. I
> found that there are actually formalized, named C indentation styles:
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentation_style
> 
> 
> K&R style & its variants 1TBS (OTBS), Linux kernel, mandatory braces,
> Java, Stroustrup & BSD KNF.  Then Allman & Allman-8 style. Then the
> Whitesmiths, GNU, Horstmann, Pico, Ratliff & Lisp styles.
> 
> I mean WTABF.
> 
> And I look at these and for me most of them are horrid. To me, proper
> code indentation means that structures within other structures are
> indented from them, and matching pairs of structures *must* be on the
> same level. Most of those violate these 2 simple maxims.


I've always used Allman style.  Though it was quite a while before I
learned that what I was doing was called Allman style.


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