On Thursday, 28 January 1999 at 20:39:03 +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: >> 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
Wave a red rag at a bull? > (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 think this is the bottom line. If you're using 8 character indents, then yes, you're screwed. If you're using Microsoft and trying to write clever shell scripts, you're screwed too. Your tools limit what you can do. I believe that, in the matter of indentation, style(9) limits legibility to a point where you really are screwed if you have multiple indentation. But it's not because the code's bad. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger g...@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
