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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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