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Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed

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William Ahern <william@wilbur.25thandClement.com> writes:
> Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> wrote:
>> Bubba <nickname@banelli.biz.invalid> writes:
> <snip>
>> >       temp=i->first_child;
>> >       i->first_child->label=l;   
>> >       i->first_child->first_child=NULL;
>> >       i->first_child->next_sib=temp;
>> >       i->first_child->last_child=NULL;
>> >       i->first_child->zadnji=0;
>> >       }
>> >       return i->first_child;
>> > }
>
>> The lack of spaces and the confusion caused by using tabs is making this
>> hard to read so I'll stop here.
>
> You mean confusion caused by *not* using tabs, or by software trying to
> convert perfectly fine tabs to spaces and--not surprisingly--fscking the
> indentation?

No, I'm fairly sure he means confusion caused by using tabs.

> Tabs for indentation, spaces for alignment. Almost every editor gets this
> right by default. It's takes a concerted effort to screw it up. (I'm not
> laying blame on anyone in particular here. I'm presuming it's the OP's
> client software that is causing the problem.)

I've worked on far too much code that has a random mixture of tabs
and spaces, with a tab representing a variable number of columns,
depending on who modified a particular line of code most recently.
My personal solution to the problem is to use spaces exclusively
for indentation -- and that was part of the coding standard at my
most recent job.  (If I worked in environment that required the
exclusive use of tabs for indentation, of course I'd use tabs.)

I'm not going to argue that you should follow my convention, but
you should be aware that there are perfectly legitimate reasons
for using spaces, even if you don't agree with them; people who use
spaces rather than tabs aren't necessarily doing so out of ignorance.

And tabs can cause serious formatting problems when posting to
Usenet, because there's news software that doesn't handle them
correctly.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
    Will write code for food.
"We must do something.  This is something.  Therefore, we must do this."
    -- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"

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Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed Bubba <nickname@banelli.biz.invalid> - 2012-01-16 22:01 +0000
  Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-01-16 14:27 -0800
    Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed Bubba <nickname@banelli.biz.invalid> - 2012-01-16 22:36 +0000
      Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2012-01-16 22:53 +0000
      Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-01-16 18:06 -0500
      Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-01-16 16:41 -0800
    Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-01-16 23:01 +0000
      Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed Shao Miller <sha0.miller@gmail.com> - 2012-01-16 19:49 -0500
        Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-01-16 17:46 -0800
  Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-01-16 22:29 +0000
    Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed Bubba <nickname@banelli.biz.invalid> - 2012-01-16 22:38 +0000
    Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed William Ahern <william@wilbur.25thandClement.com> - 2012-01-16 15:30 -0800
      Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-01-17 00:03 +0000
      Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-01-16 16:35 -0800
        Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed cri@tiac.net (Richard Harter) - 2012-01-17 02:00 +0000
          Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-01-16 19:16 -0800
            Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed cri@tiac.net (Richard Harter) - 2012-01-17 05:15 +0000
              Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-01-17 00:00 -0800
          Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2012-01-17 04:04 +0000
  Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2012-01-16 22:44 +0000
  Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-01-16 17:58 -0500
  Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed ImpalerCore <jadill33@gmail.com> - 2012-01-16 19:36 -0800
    Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-01-16 23:33 -0500
      Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed ImpalerCore <jadill33@gmail.com> - 2012-01-17 07:18 -0800
    Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-01-17 13:54 +0000
      Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed ImpalerCore <jadill33@gmail.com> - 2012-01-17 07:39 -0800
    Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2012-01-17 19:01 +0000
  Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed jgk@panix.com (Joe keane) - 2012-01-18 21:21 +0000

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