Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Standard Indentation etc.
Message-ID: <1988Dec18.003828.27013@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <663@htsa.uucp> <832@husc6.harvard.edu> <2450@ficc.uu.net> <879@quintus.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 88 00:38:28 GMT

In article <879@quintus.UUCP> ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>...8 columns is _way_ too big for an indentation increment.
>The range recommended by everyone except C let's-torture-test-the-eyes
>hackers is two to five columns for an indentation increment.

8 columns is just fine for people who split up their code into functions
instead of cramming it all into giant monolithic lumps.  Don't view hitting
the right margin with 8-column indents as a sign of overly-big indents,
view it as a sign of overly-complex code that needs to be broken up.  I
find that this is *almost* always the right view, in hindsight.

[Boy, I can hear the afterburners lighting.  Fortunately, I'll be on
vacation in Australia by the time the flame war starts... :-) ]
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"God willing, we will return." |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
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