\s\s\s\sif (expr) {\n\tstmt; --ick.) The only exception to this rule is
multi-line comments that use an asterisk at the beginning of each line, i.e.:
- /t/*
- /t * This is a block comment.
- /t * Note that it has multiple lines
- /t * and that the beginning of each line has a tab plus a space
- /t * except for the opening '/*' line where the slash
- /t * is used instead of a space.
- /t */
+ \t/*
+ \t * This is a block comment.
+ \t * Note that it has multiple lines
+ \t * and that the beginning of each line has a tab plus a space
+ \t * except for the opening '/*' line where the slash
+ \t * is used instead of a space.
+ \t */
Furthermore, The preference is that tabs be set to display at four spaces
wide, but the beauty of using only tabs (and not spaces) at the beginning of
Furthermore, you should put a single comment (not necessarily one line, just
one comment) before the block, rather than commenting each and every line.
-There is an optimal ammount of commenting that a program can have; you can
+There is an optimal amount of commenting that a program can have; you can
comment too much as well as too little.
A picture is really worth a thousand words here, the following example