<div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 7:15 PM, Zoltan Horvath <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:zoltan@webkit.org" target="_blank">zoltan@webkit.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi there,<br>
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I think the 4 spaces indentation doesn't make the code harder to read.<br>
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If we stay with that, it will be more consistent in long term, since<br>
otherwise you'd allow almost random-size indentation, based on the<br>
particular code part.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Right. The biggest rationale behind this rule, however, is that aligning lines will increase the cost of future refactoring.</div><div><br></div><div>Consider what happens if someFunction was renamed to someOtherFunction. If we left the second and subsequent lines intact, we'll have unaligned indentations. If we did update the subsequent line to be aligned, then we'll be making unnecessary whitespace changes in those lines and clutters the subversion blame history.</div>
<div><br></div><div>- R. Niwa</div><div><br></div></div></div></div>