Re: Which code style do you prefer the most?

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:
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Too deep indenting I consider to be a possible bad structuring
effect ...

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Would you consider half a dozen indentation levels to be too many? I
frequently go that deep.

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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).
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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
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    80 -    // empty lines
   169 0
   254 1
   172 2
   122 3
    46 4
    34 5
     7 6
     3 7
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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