Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Jun 2007 22:35:01 +0200 (CEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: coding style |
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On Jun 15 2007 13:21, Linus Torvalds wrote: >On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: >> | >> | from CodingStyle: >> | Tabs are 8 characters, and thus indentations are also 8 >> | characters. There are heretic movements that try to make >> | indentations 4 (or even 2!) characters deep, and that is akin >> | to trying to define the value of PI to be 3. >> | >> | Linus (did he wrote that part?) and the heretics both can have their fun >> | without impacting each other. If we wanted to force the user to have >> | exactly 8 screen blanks, we should use spaces throughout. > >I did indeed write that. > >Tabs are 8 characters in the kernel coding style.
That clarification ("in the kernel coding style") should end up in CodingStyle. (Since tabs *are not* just 8 everywhere, which current CodingStyle seems to imply. But maybe I'm just to blunt.)
>And yes, I also wrote the other quote: > >> Now, some people will claim that having 8-character indentations makes >> the code move too far to the right, and makes it hard to read on a >> 80-character terminal screen. The answer to that is that if you need >> more than 3 levels of indentation, you're screwed anyway, and should fix >> your program. > >In the kernel, we try to split functions up, and perhaps use inline >functions etc, and really really avoid deep indentation.
This rule is also very helpful outside the kernel.
Jan -- (And IMHO, GNU code, e.g. coreutils, is the best counter-example.) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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