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Date:      Thu, 28 Jan 1999 20:39:03 +1100
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au, luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, grog@lemis.com, peter.jeremy@auss2.alcatel.com.au
Subject:   Re: indent(1) and style(9) (was: btokup() macro in sys/malloc.h)
Message-ID:  <199901280939.UAA30919@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>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

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