• frezik@midwest.social
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    6 months ago

    It’s important to remember that Linus is primarily writing about C code formatting. C doesn’t have things that tend to create more deeply nested structures, such as a formal class syntax, or nested functions.

    Going too deep is still bad–as zea notes, it’s an indication of control structures run amok–but the exact number is dependent on the language and the context.