Talk:C date and time functions: Difference between revisions

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:: No, it's indeed about consistency in Wikipedia. The industry standard isn't that relevant, since here most of the code examples here span at most 20 lines and what matters is readability in such very specific circumstances. We are not dealing with 100000+ LOC projects or 1000+ LOC files either, so the cited advantages of tabs largely doesn't apply. In addition to that, most of the readers are not C professionals and they don't necessarily expect to see ''kernel style'' here. Lastly, C standard library is available in C++ and Wikipedia doesn't apparently have articles such as ''C date and time functions in C++''. Thus, the consistency of C and C++ examples is also beneficial.

: So if you want to change the indentation style used here, the usual procedure involving such comparatively major changes is to go to [[WikiProject_talkWikipedia_talk:WikiProject Computing]] or [[Talk:C programming language]] and propose the change. But I probably should warn you to be prepared for a long flamewar, since this is what most of similar discussions become. Until there's consensus for a new indentation style, it should stay as is. [[User:1exec1|1exec1]] ([[User talk:1exec1|talk]]) 16:42, 18 March 2012 (UTC)