Breaking Long Lines

[Gedare Bloom]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 9:32 AM Sebastian Huber
<sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de> wrote:
>
> On 11/11/2020 17:27, Gedare Bloom wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 12:25 AM Sebastian Huber
> > <sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de>  wrote:
> >> On 10/11/2020 06:33, Chris Johns wrote:
> >>
> >>>> My question is if we really should indent by two levels for the continuation of
> >>>> long lines.
> >>> And my answer was it depends on what is being indented and why. The block
> >>> nesting level can also effect what works.
> >> I would like to focus on this particular case.
> >>>> variable = ...
> >>>>
> >>>> <SP><SP><SP><SP>foo bar continuation ...
> >>>>
> >>>> vs.
> >>>>
> >>>> variable = ...
> >>>>
> >>>> <SP><SP>foo bar continuation ...
> >>> I think most editors will assume this level of indenting rather than the double
> >>> indent level.
> >> Yes, also I doubt such a special case double indentation can be
> >> configured in automatic code formatting tools.
> >>
> >> So, can I commit this change?
> >>
> >> https://lists.rtems.org/pipermail/devel/2020-November/063094.html
> >>
> > I think this rule has been long standing. I wonder how much code is affected.
> >
> > Anyway, whether it is one indent level or two is not a great concern
> > to me. I believe the use of two has been to make broken lines more
> > obvious vs nesting. But when we have explicit curly brackets {} and
> > the operator trails at the end of the line, I think one indent level
> > is OK. As with many style things, it seems not a big deal either way.
> > If it makes the code easier to maintain with style tools, then I say
> > go for it.
> >
> I never noticed code sections which use this two level indentation for a
> line continuation. Do you know an example off hand?
>
No. We really don't have so many broken lines that this is a regular occurence.

I think most of those examples will be in conditional blocks.

I'm ok with your proposed 1-indent level for broken lines.

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