Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH] CodingStyle: remove what nowadays might be considered polemic | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Sun, 21 Dec 2014 09:09:52 -0800 |
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On Sun, 2014-12-21 at 11:23 +0100, Alexander Holler wrote: > Am 19.12.2014 um 14:36 schrieb Alexander Holler: > > In times where things like checkpatch do exist and are mandated to be used, > > it would be easy to warn if too many levels of indentation are used (e.g. > > by counting leading tabs).
checkpatch already does that looking for 6+ leading tabs then any statement that increases indentation.
> I've heared that wrong argument that a maximum line length > of 80 chars helps in regard to keep the levels of intendation low once > too often.
I believe that argument correct.
helps is not a mandate.
The idea is that code that start far from the left (for some definition of far) is a signal that code could be refactored into more discrete chunks.
Without a limit to line length, more code would likely not have been as disaggregated as today.
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