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Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed

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On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:35:48 -0800, Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
wrote:

>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.

And if you have a friendly editor it will convert tabs to spaces and
vice versa just as you desire.

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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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