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so, you can indent 9 times in an 80 column display, and less then that usefully? I'd much rather have tab size be set to get smaller based on the number of ind

• mich41 14y ago
  Prophet says: 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. And I think I kinda agree with this.
  • laumars 14y ago
    I do agree that there comes a point where you can get over zealous with indentation, but 3 levels deep is pretty common. In fact you idle at one level of indentation just with having your code inside a function. So basically all you need is one conditional inside a loop and you're already maxed out.
  • FuzzyDunlop 14y ago
    Probably not good for ruby when combinations of the following things can result in deeply nested code: module class def if class << self def
    • mich41 14y ago
      Well, the Prophet is a C programmer so his numbers may need adjustment by some constant for languages with objects, namespaces, modules, etc. But still excessive indentation is a hint that the code may benefit from some refactoring.