Received: by taz.hyperreal.com (8.6.12/8.6.5) id IAA01529; Wed, 26 Jun 1996 08:27:55 -0700 Received: from life.ai.mit.edu by taz.hyperreal.com (8.6.12/8.6.5) with SMTP id IAA01496; Wed, 26 Jun 1996 08:27:26 -0700 Received: from hershey.ai.mit.edu by life.ai.mit.edu (4.1/AI-4.10) for new-httpd@hyperreal.com id AA22648; Wed, 26 Jun 96 11:26:48 EDT From: rst@ai.mit.edu (Robert S. Thau) Received: by hershey.ai.mit.edu (8.6.12/AI-4.10) id LAA03583; Wed, 26 Jun 1996 11:23:30 -0400 Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 11:23:30 -0400 Message-Id: <199606261523.LAA03583@hershey.ai.mit.edu> To: new-httpd@hyperreal.com Subject: Re: fixes to assist building Apache-1.1b4 on SunOS-4.1, among other Sender: owner-new-httpd@apache.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: new-httpd@hyperreal.com Further items: 5a) *Strong* preference for aligned comments. Outdenting breaks the visual flow of the code, and makes it gratuitously difficult to visually match brace levels (e.g., to find the end of a loop). 6z) Switch indentation: switch (foo) { case bar: whatever; break; case baz: something else; break; default: yadda yadda; break; } Note the *lack* of extra indentation for braces --- another strong pet peeve... rst