From dm@reeducation-labor.lcs.mit.edu Wed Jun 16 20:44:15 1999
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 17:30:14 -0500 (EST)
From: David Mazieres <dm@reeducation-labor.lcs.mit.edu>
To: sfsdev@reeducation-labor.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Coding standards for SFS

Now that several people are going to be hacking on the SFS source
tree, I have written some coding standards and put them in the file
STANDARDS in the top directory.

While we can debate the merits of what I have written and amend the
standards, whatever we settle on must be rigorously obeyed without
exception by anyone checking code into the tree.  If we can't even
ensure that every single line of code is properly indented, we can
never hope ensure it is correct.

I don't anticipate this to be a problem, but I do want to make clear
from the start that I feel very, very strongly about this.  Code
uniformity is the most basic mark of quality in a system.  I want no
part of a project in which sloppy indentation degenerates into buggy,
hard to maintain code and poor testing.  I've seen it happen once to
SFS, and I'm not going to watch it happen again.

David