Tabs are 8 characters, and thus indentations are also 8 characters. There are heretic movements that try to make indentations 4 (or even 2!) characters deep, and that is akin to trying to define the value of PI to be 3.
Rationale: The whole idea behind indentation is to clearly define where a block of control starts and ends. Especially when you’ve been looking at your screen for 20 straight hours, you’ll find it a lot easier to see how the indentation works if you have large indentations.
Now, some people will claim that having 8-character indentations makes the code move too far to the right, and makes it hard to read on a 80-character terminal screen. The answer to that is that if you need more than 3 levels of indentation, you’re screwed anyway, and should fix your program.
In short, 8-char indents make things easier to read, and have the added benefit of warning you when you’re nesting your functions too deep. Heed that warning.
>The answer to that is that if you need more than 3 levels of indentation, you’re screwed anyway, and should fix your program. So you can't have any other indented blocks inside an if block that's inside a class's function?
Nope. A tab is a single character, so it actually makes it smaller.
Christopher Bennett
depends on the environment
are you baiting?
Austin Ortiz
>are you baiting? A tab literally is one character. If you use a shitty editor that converts them to tabs, that's your problem.
Jaxson Phillips
2 space masterrace
Gavin Reed
I have no understanding of style or format but I still distribute hundreds of lines of code that other people inevitably end up having to deal with. Just thought I'd get that off my chest.
Wyatt Anderson
A class wont exist in the kernel codebase because it's in c so not an issue
Nolan Bailey
>The answer to that is that if you need more than 3 levels of indentation, you’re screwed anyway, and should fix your program. Any object oriented language ever needs one indent for the function declaration within the class, one more for the code in the function. So you're limited to one more statement that causes an indent. Can't have a for loop with in an if or the other way around.
Retarded. 4 spaces master race, 2 for markup languages are okay too.
Blake Nguyen
If you're using an OO language then you're screwed anyway and should fix your program
