Thread: How far do you indent?

If your lines are too long it's not the tab size that is the problem.

Yea, that would be the fault of a stupidly verbose standard library.

voted everything

Originally Posted by dwks

If they "add up quickly", modularize your program (ie, break it up into functions). One of my books suggests that you shouldn't go over three levels of indentation, but I don't go that far.

But I think 8 is too much, for all that.

Good in theory, but I find that it is not always practical.

I use three. I find two to be too little (that was a fun sentence), and more than four excessively obnoxious. Between three and four, I prefer three.

I voted 4 and 8 spaces. It all depends what platform I'm working on (either solo or in a team).

When writing for Windows I usually stick to the 4 space standard, and 8 for Linux.

Originally Posted by dwks

Well, if you transfer it, it sometimes ends up looking like this:

Code:

int main(void) {
                     if(1) {
                      printf("hi");
            }
                  return 0;
     }

Stop using the Kernel style then, Allman all the way!
Also, don't mix spaces with tabs. Use one or the other, not both.

I use 3 or 4, whatever is standard in VC2003.

Coding standards at your house will decide. Left to me 4 spaces.

Originally Posted by ^xor

8 space tabs all the way. Indentation is meant to make the code more readable, and IMO 4 spaces just isn't enough.

I also prefer tabs over spaces since it consumes less space (not a big issue though), and it lets whoever is working on my code display it how they like without having to re-indent the whole file.

Here's a tip for you VIM users who can't paste properly.

Code:

:set paste

Thanks for the VIM tip, I can never get it to past right

Originally Posted by Zach L.

Good in theory, but I find that it is not always practical.

I use three. I find two to be too little (that was a fun sentence), and more than four excessively obnoxious. Between three and four, I prefer three.

Three spaces for me also. I tried two in another programming language I use, but never could get used to it, so I switched back to three.

4 spaces, though with a tab.

I find using an odd number of spaces odd, for some reason.

4. Just typing this