On Feb 21 2008 22:37, Ray Lee wrote:
quoted text
>On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 7:13 PM, Linus Torvalds
><torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>>  So I'd be happier with warnings about deep indentation (but how do you
>>  count it? Will people then try to fake things out by using 4-space indents
>>  and then "deep" indentations will look like just a couple of tabs?)
>
>I suspect that 90% of the cases that people really care about would
>get caught successfully just by counting brace depth.
>
>ie, by looking at { { {} {} {{{}{}}} } } I bet you can tell me which
>section should have been pulled out into a separate routine.

Not only that. By clever branch factoring, you can possibly get yourself
rid of lots of deep levels. As in:

static void blah(void)
{
	if (foo) {
		bar;
		bar2;
	} else {
		if (this) {
			that;
			that2;
		} else {
			bad day;
			bad day2;
		}
	}
}

xfrmd:

static void blah(void)
{
	if (foo) {
		bar;
		bar2;
		return;
	}
	if (this) {
		that;
		that2;
		return;
	}
	/* yay, got rid of two levels of indent! */
	good day;
	good day2;
}

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