CodingStyle indentation and alignment

[Laurence Rochfort]

Good point.

On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 3:47 PM Andrey Utkin <andrey_utkin at fastmail.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 02:27:27PM +0000, Laurence Rochfort wrote:
> > Thanks very much for the comprehensive answer.
> >
> > Using spaces and tabs for alignment does make the code more readable
> > to my mind.
> >
> > The reason behind my question originally was that the CodingStyle doc
> > states:
> >
> > "Outside of comments, documentation and except in Kconfig, spaces are
> never
> > used for indentation, and the above example is deliberately broken."
> >
> > however most code I have seen is not compliant with that.
> >
> > Should the docs be updated?
>
> There's difference between terms "indentation" and "alignment".
> Please see paragraph "Indentation and alignment" of previously
> referenced article:
>
> http://dmitryfrank.com/articles/indent_with_tabs_align_with_spaces#indentation_and_alignment
>
> Accounting this difference, the doc is correct in strict sense.
>
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