On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Kevin Lawton wrote:
> >
> > As far as tabstops go, well hey that's another personal preference
> > thing. My take is that you really want to think in terms of
> > an 80-wide character terminal for editing, and you quickly run
> > out of space when you have a reasonable level of nesting if
> > you use 4. And we'll likely have to have some serious nesting
> > in places. So, I really don't care much what the indentation
> > increment we use is, as long as it's >1 and <3. :^)
> > We'll probably end up having varying styles. I'm not going
> > to lose any sleep over it.
On the other hand, from /usr/src/linux/Documnetation/CodingStyle :
> 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.
But I do agree that 2 spaces is readable (at least to me) and since we're
not all god-like programmers who can keep nesting down to three levels, it
does sound reasonable.
You know, I just had a thought - we're spending a lot of time talking
about these comment and indent issues when they're (while fun to argue
over) somewhat pointless... As of yet I don't have a whole lot to add to
the real discussion because I'm just starting to learn system programming,
but I did want to say that I'm enjoying the more technical posts, and
learning quite a bit from them... Thanx!
-- Mike
