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anybody who uses this indentation style deserves an execution

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@doskel whole of GNU in shambles right now ( i have worked on the bash codebase and it was NOT fun at all )

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@ari @doskel Trueeeeee gnu software somehow manages to be the most inscrutable thing, the only code that i found that was harder to understand was my own and java
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@Milli @doskel yep i worked on a few gnu codebases for personal things in fact and every time i wanted to bawl my eyes out xD

how do you manage to write such … terrific code

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@doskel what is your favorite indentation style?

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@ari @doskel have you worked on a gcc frontend? do you have some notes on how to do it cause i tried understanding how to do it but i have no clue how to use gimple/generic
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@Milli @doskel nah, thankfully never had to touch the can of worms that is the GNU compiler collection xD

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@ari @doskel good for you, i spent the first half of this year trying to understand it to no avail, i even looked at all the existing frontend code but it was useless
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@doskel gotta give your code space to breathe

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@sjolsen there are newlines

  • where needed to make it compile
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@doskel honestly i think this is fine. good even. at least compared to a lot of the C "styles" i've seen.

it will royally piss off anyone who treats tabs as a quasi compressed representation of spaces but those people deserve to suffer imo

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@sjolsen @doskel me patching gcc and the code isn't readable until `:set tabstop=8` (from my default of 4)

ughhh blobcatflop
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