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gorcunov@gmail.com wrote:
> [Stefan Richter - Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 03:07:43PM +0200]
> | Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> | > There sould be someting making strict rule over alignment (as it done
> | > for the tabs size).
> | 
> | That's impracticable.  Alignment, as it serves readability, cannot be
> | covered by a few strict rules.

> Yes, but C syntax (and grammar) is limited set. And alignmet I'm talking
> about may cover the following statements only:
> 
> 1) Mathematical
> 2) Logical
> 3) Function's arguments

Sure, but we have sometimes long names and long ./-> dereference
expressions.  Alignment of those after line wraps sometimes turns out
better if 'taste' rather than a simple rule is applied.
-- 
Stefan Richter
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