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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 14:26:13 +0100
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On 28.02.2025 11:19, Richard Heathfield wrote:
> On 28/02/2025 09:21, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
>> On 28.02.2025 09:55, Richard Heathfield wrote:
> <snip>
>>
>>> 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.
> 
> I thought so too, so I looked, and of course it's not as interesting as
> we might have hoped.
> 
> I'm not allowed to post the code here, but I can paraphrase:
> 
>   value = really_quite_extremely_long_function_name(arg1,
>                                                     arg2,
>                                                     arg3,
>                                                     arg4);

Actually, this sort of structure was exactly what I thought of
when you spoke about such huge indent values.


I don't have such extreme formatting, but structural similar
variants; elsewhere I had posted this fragment

        if (sscanf (mutations, "r:%u,g:%u,a:%u,d:%u",
                    &mutation_rates.base,
                    &mutation_rates.genesis,
                    &mutation_rates.aging,
                    &mutation_rates.death
                   ) != 4)

but I have the habit to not use Tabs for the excess indenting;
informally written it looks like

<Tab><Tab>if (sscanf (mutations, "r:%u,g:%u,a:%u,d:%u",
<Tab><Tab>  <spaces>  &mutation_rates.base,
<Tab><Tab>  <spaces>  &mutation_rates.genesis,
<Tab><Tab>  <spaces>  &mutation_rates.aging,
<Tab><Tab>  <spaces>  &mutation_rates.death
<Tab><Tab>  <spaces> ) != 4)

so that the code structure and alignment stays the same when
changing indent tabs (from 4) to values of, say, 8 or 2.

The side-effect is that the space-alignment gets not counted
as [arbitrary long] indents when counting the leading <Tabs>.

Janis