Braces

Fri Feb 8 04:56:47 AEST 1991

In article <64002 at brunix.UUCP> gvr at cs.brown.edu (George V. Reilly) writes:
>The jargon file, version 2.5.1, has this to say on the matter of
>indent styles:

Thanks, George.  I knew there'd be an authoritative answer, somewhere.
(Gotta uncompress that jargon directory...)

>   "Whitesmiths style" --- popularized by the examples that came
>   with Whitesmiths C, an early commercial C compiler. Basic indent
>   per level shown here is 8 spaces, but 4 is occasionally seen.
>     if (cond)
>             {
>             <body>
>             }

Bingo.  Whitesmiths.  PC-land.  When I get my HP "Jaguar"
and need an 8088-based C, maybe I'll do it, too.

				--Blair
				  "'Nuff sed."