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From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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Subject: Re: indent(1) and style(9) (was: btokup() macro in sys/malloc.h)
To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 08:35:33 +0100 (MET)
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        peter.jeremy@auss2.alcatel.com.au
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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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