>not speaking about vinum, but to me, the indentation of 8 char and >line length of 80 chars are almost mutually exclusive. > >See e.g. tcp_input.c ip_input.c and many network device drivers as >an example -- basically all places where, for efficiency reasons, >the code tries to expand in-line various block, the depth of >indentation pushes everything to the right end leaving only 20-30 >useful chars per line.
See the Linux style guide (linux/Documentation/CodingStyle) for strong opinions about this: "if you need more than 3 levels of indentation, you're screwed anyway, and should fix your program". I almost agree. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
