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 t

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. https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/process/coding-styl...