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Subject:Re: Documenting Code/Why Is It So Ugly? From:"Huber, Mike" <mrhuber -at- SOFTWARE -dot- ROCKWELL -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 2 Mar 1999 15:55:08 -0500
> From: Rebecca Merck [mailto:Rebecca -dot- Merck -at- ONESOFT -dot- COM]
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> The really great news is that for most programming languages, the
> spacing is absolutely irrelevant.
Mostly irrelevant. In VB, it is relevant most of the time.
In C, it is relevant for pre-processor commands.
In most languages, a string can't be broken across lines.
So ask the programmer. Few things bother a programmer more than code that won't work when entered exactly as it appears in the manual.
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