Subject: Re: Alternatives 4
From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:46:47 -0600
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <L8udnWE6GO1qhoPUnZ2dnUVZ_tXinZ2d@speakeasy.net>
Tamas K Papp  <tkpapp@gmail.com> wrote:
+---------------
| In contemporary practice, people use short names because line breaks 
| present a problem.  Where do you break this piece of C code, for example?
| 
| really_long_variable_name =
| verbose_function_name(argument_name_that_just_goes_on_and_on,
| another_bloody_argument);
+---------------

I would write it as:

    really_long_variable_name =
      verbose_function_name(argument_name_that_just_goes_on_and_on,
                            another_bloody_argument);

or in extremis, with *really* long names:

    really_long_variable_name =
      verbose_function_name(
        argument_name_that_just_goes_on_and_on,
        another_bloody_argument);

But then, these days I tend to use Lisp indentation when writing C.  ;-}


-Rob

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