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Message-ID: <1419181792.4200.2.camel@perches.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 09:09:52 -0800
From: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To: Alexander Holler <holler@...oftware.de>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] CodingStyle: remove what nowadays might be
considered polemic
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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