[Ohrrpgce] SVN: teeemcee/8406 Indent all but the largest of the subs/functions in drawing.bas

James Paige Bob at hamsterrepublic.com
Sat Feb 18 09:07:10 PST 2017


Oh, yeah! I was totally using the QB editor all the way up to hasta-la-qb.
It did indeed show each function separately.

That's probably where I learned my habit of not caring what order function
are defined in in the file

On Saturday, February 18, 2017, Ralph Versteegen <teeemcee at gmail.com> wrote:

> Heh!
>
> Didn't QBASIC.EXE (have a viewing mode where it) only showed the contents
> of each sub/function rather than the whole file? Indenting to distinguish
> each function from the surrounding ones is unnecessary if using that IDE. I
> thought that you were still using it at the time. And I thought that's alos
> why back then we put the documentation for each function inside rather than
> above.
>
> On 19 February 2017 at 03:16, James Paige <Bob at hamsterrepublic.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','Bob at hamsterrepublic.com');>> wrote:
>
>> I had to think hard to remember why I would do a thing like that. It
>> might have been a quickbasic quirk or superstition. I can't remember :)
>>
>> I do remember at one point believing that indenting with one space
>> instead of two was really important to avoid some kind of compiler memory
>> limit... Knowing QB, that one might have actually been true
>>
>>
>> On Saturday, February 18, 2017, <subversion at hamsterrepublic.com
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','subversion at hamsterrepublic.com');>> wrote:
>>
>>> teeemcee
>>> 2017-02-18 02:09:06 -0800 (Sat, 18 Feb 2017)
>>> 227
>>> Indent all but the largest of the subs/functions in drawing.bas
>>>
>>> Do you know who's to blame for this? James! Back in r16 he
>>> removed top-level indentation of all subs/functions. Crazy.
>>> Maybe someday we should run basclean again.
>>> ---
>>> U   wip/drawing.bas
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