On 09/18/2013 09:05 PM, Dominik Taborsky wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 19:21:47 +0200, Maurizio Lombardi
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>>>>
>>>>> Sorry about those tabs. And my tab is 4 characters. BTW, I don't
>>>>> see how
>>>>> "80 chars per line" and "8-char tab" can get together. Seems
>>>>> contradicting to me...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> You can have around 9 levels of indentation with these parameters,
>>>> which
>>>> is still many more than any sane function would use.
>>>
>>>
>>> Yes, but at that level of indentation you would have 8 chars left.
>>> That's
>> not really an argument, is it? If you have 4 level of indentation
>> (which is
>> quite reasonable), 8-char tabs waste 16 chars for nothing. Thats one
>> fifth
>> or 20% of the maximum space allowed per line. 20% wasted.
>>
>> No, it doesn't waste chars for nothing. Actually, it helps the
>> readability
>> of the code by a whole lot...
>> If you need more than 4 level of indentation probably something is wrong
>> with your code. It is my personal opinion but I believe it is shared by
>> many others.
> 
> And I agree with that. I don't need more than 4 level of indentation. I
> never said I do, Jakub was talking about 9 and I was talking about 4.

Yes and I also said that 9 is many more than any sane function would use.

Jakub


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