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Date:      Thu, 28 Jan 1999 08:35:33 +0100 (MET)
From:      Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Cc:        bde@zeta.org.au, 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:  <199901280735.IAA08539@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
In-Reply-To: <199901280939.UAA30919@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Jan 28, 99 08:38:44 pm

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> >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.

in userland, probably me too. In the kernel, i am not so sure.

	luigi

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