Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Indentation level

[Tom Wijsman <TomWij@gentoo.org>]

On Wed, 26 Mar 2014 12:04:11 +0100
Alexander Berntsen <bernalex@gentoo.org> wrote:

> To avoid bikeshedding I just propose to set it to 4. Any objections?

Well, it might happen anyway; I prefer 4 myself, but I foresee that
someone that uses less might speak up, those that use more are less
common afaik. So, we might as well jump straight to the hard arguments;
if difference then does come up, it gives us reading material to vote.

From what I recall, the most common argument to set something like 2 is
to get more indentations on the screen; however, consider that the more
indentations are brought on the screen, the deeper in the code you can
get. Surely if you get around something like ~10 indentations you are
likely in need of extracting a function to keep the code clean.

People can still override the "presentation" of their editor to behave
different if they need to differ from the default; note that this is
presentation, while the editor could respect to save it in the format
we've expected this at. Though, changing presentation like this could
again make differences in alignment; and thus, if someone does change
the presentation I expect them to check the normal tab stop before
doing or changing alignments.

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Gentoo Developer

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