On 7/27/07, Neil Mitchell
Personally, I have no problem with the current way (and would consider anything other than 4 leading spaces in the first example to be evil). However, if you are using a text editor which doesn't automatically indent the start of following lines, it might be a bit more annoying. Of course, if your editor is that bad you should consider changing to virtually anything which isn't notepad.
Or pico. :-) You'd be amazed the number of undergraduates I taught who refused to learn to use gvim, emacs, or any other *programming* editor, and instead spent 75% of their time battling the editor. <sigh> I must say, I agree about the indentation question. My experience is that if you use 4 space indentation and run out of columns, then it's time to refactor, and think more about how your logical structure is working (you may recall, this list recently introduced me to the Maybe monad transformer for exactly this reason). It's actually a pretty effective rule of thumb. cheers, T. -- Dr Thomas Conway drtomc@gmail.com Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much.