Re: Sunday Dinner Feb 2

On 2025-02-06, fos@sdf.org <fos@sdf.org> wrote:

On 2025-02-05, Cindy Hamilton <chamilton5280@invalid.com> wrote:

On 2025-02-05, fos@sdf.org <fos@sdf.org> wrote:

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for me;

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N100 G90 G00 G40 G49 G80 G17 G20 (SAFE BLOCK)

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is a helluva lot easier to read than;

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n100 g90 g00 g40 g49 g80 g17 g20 (safe block)

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It's the opposite for me.  I get a lot easier recognition
of the lowercase letters.

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yep, we're all different. same with spaces. i prefer spaces
between words in nc code, i know others who do not.
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N100G90G00G40G49G80G17G20(SAFE BLOCK); is a valid block of code
that gives me brain cramps looking at it.
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typical nc editors have built in functions to add and remove
spaces and convert letter case.

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And then there's the traditional 8-space tab, gifted to us by
Fortran.
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I eventually had to configure vi to use 5-space tabs, because my

boss edited with the Microsoft IDE and used tabs in his C++ code.
I got tired of all the line wraps.  Before he came along, our
style was never to use tabs.  Drove me crazy when he edited legacy
code and MS converted all groups of 5 spaces to tabs.  He'd check
something in to the revision control system with a one-line change
and there's be hundreds of lines of whitespace diffs.
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