On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 08:51:19AM -0400, Roger Racine wrote: > get back to a reasonable value. Let's not get into a discussion of > complexity, and whether a given indentation value should ever get this > high. While it does not happen all that often, per KSLOC, it happens at > least a few times in many complex programs. it happens as soon as tough management of complexity is neglected. > Priorities have to be given to each of the formatting rules, so they can be > broken in the appropriate order. Some would say that the line length is > not that important. Others would want that to be the last rule to > break. Some would say to do what I did up to the point where everything is > on a separate line, but aligned using the standard indentation value, and > then allow the line length to be violated. > > I am pretty sure that a single standard, without acknowledging priorities, > and with no rules for exceptional cases, leads to problems. My default settings of options would be line_length => 79 software and hardwaretools of all ages without problems max_indentation_depth => 6 (beyond no more indentation!) educational effect -- --Peter Hermann(49)0711-685-3611 fax3758 [log in to unmask] --Pfaffenwaldring 27 Raum 114, D-70569 Stuttgart Uni Computeranwendungen --http://www.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de/homes/ph/ --Team Ada: "C'mon people let the world begin" (Paul McCartney)