[vtk-developers] style : Holiday greetings and a present of V TK4.0

[Volpe, Christopher R (CRD)]

|> Well, I don't mind tabs as longs as they are every 4 chars, 
|> which is my 
|> settings in Emacs.

Doesn't everybody indent 2 chars per indentation level?

|>          + you *have* to use that style for Tcl scripts, 
|> because it's part 
|> of the syntax.

As long as we're griping, incorporating an indentation style into the syntax is an abomination. 

|> And you are perfectly right, because any experienced C 
|> programmer how bad 
|> this :
|>          if (condition)
|>           do something;
|> is. This is a common pitfall and you will definitely fall 
|> into it if you 
|> use VTK, because most VTK macros are not capitalized (as 
|> they sometimes are 
|> in other toolkits) and look as if they were regular functions, thus :
|>          if (condition)
|>           use a function which is indeed a macro that is 
|> more than one 
|> statement;
|> will kill you.

... which is why any experienced C programmer writes her macros like this:

#define FOOBAR(x) \
do \
  { \
  do_something(); \
  do_something_else(); \
  etc(); \
  } \
while (0)


> Chris
> 
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Christopher R. Volpe
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