Re: [RFC PATCH] CodingStyle: remove what nowadays might be considered polemic

[Joe Perches]

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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