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From: Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Which code style do you prefer the most?
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2025 10:21:39 +0100
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On 28.02.2025 09:55, Richard Heathfield wrote:
> On 28/02/2025 07:50, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
>> On 27.02.2025 10:15, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>> On Thu, 27 Feb 2025 09:38:40 +0100, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
>>>
>>>> Too deep indenting I consider to be a possible bad structuring
>>>> effect ...
>>>
>>> Would you consider half a dozen indentation levels to be too many? I
>>> frequently go that deep.
>>
>> To be honest, I've never counted them. So why should I suggest someone
>> else what's a "good" value. Programmers certainly should have got (or
>> develop) a feeling about what's acceptable and what's too much in their
>> own playground (or in project contexts where many people cooperate).
>>
>> But since you were asking I got curious; I pick one recent "C" source
>> from one of my toy projects and get this distribution of the amount of
>> indents
>>
>>     80 -    // empty lines
>>    169 0
>>    254 1
>>    172 2
>>    122 3
>>     46 4
>>     34 5
>>      7 6
>>      3 7
>>
>> What would be your typical indent distribution in your "C" source code?
> 
> I looked at around 100 KLOC and was surprised to find that my modal
> indent count was 3, which is lower than I expected.

Intuitively I've also expected (slightly) higher values. (But
obviously my code structuring wasn't as bad as I thought. :-)

> On the other hand, I maxed out at 24.

It would be interesting to get to know what sort of code-lines
or what sort of code-structure these extreme values stem from.

Janis