Style question

Peter Hansen peter at engcorp.com
Wed Jul 7 22:27:06 EDT 2004


Leif K-Brooks wrote:

> The style guide says that a wrapped line should be aligned with where 
> the wrapped part started. But what is the most readable thing to do when 
> that's impossible? For instance (ignore the wrap caused by my news 
> reader), where should the second variable name be wrapped to in this line?
> 
> really_really_long_variable_name = 
> another_even_longer_variable_name_with_cookies

Ignoring the style guide on this issue, I always indent wrapped
lines one indentation level beyond the previous line.

"It's the only thing that makes sense." (TM)

-Peter



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