Re:Godit - A very religious text editor written in Go
by laumars on Thursday March 28, 2013 @07:03AM
(#5454163)
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.
Re:Godit - A very religious text editor written in Go
by FuzzyDunlop on Thursday March 28, 2013 @07:22AM
(#5454211)
Probably not good for ruby when combinations of the following things can result in deeply nested code:
module
class
def
if
class << self
def
Re:Godit - A very religious text editor written in Go
by mich41 on Thursday March 28, 2013 @07:49AM
(#5454277)
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.
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.