Hi Paul,
I agree with you that a nesting level of more than 4-5 is a bad thing, but I
believe that throughout the midas code, this level is not exceeded (my poor
mind also does not hold more than 5 things (;-) ). An indent level of 8 columns
alone does hot force you too much in not extending the nesting level. I have
seen code which does that, so there are nesting levels of 8 and more, which
ends up that the code is smashed to the right side of the screen, where each
statement is broken into many line since each line only holds 10 or 20
characters. All the nice real estate on the left side of the scree is lost.
So having said that, I don't feel a strong need of giving up a "-i2", since the
midas code does not contain deep nesting levels and hopefully will never have.
In my opinion, a small indent level makes more use of your screen space, since
you do not have a large white area at the left. A typical nesting level is 3-4,
which causes already 32 blank charactes at the left, or 1/3 of your screen,
just for nothing. It will lead to more lines (even with -l90), so people have
to scroll more.
What do others think (Pierre, Konstantin, Renee) ? |