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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
