how many nested for can we utilize?

Roel Schroeven rschroev_nospam_ml at fastmail.fm
Sun Aug 17 15:19:37 EDT 2008


Nick Dumas schreef:
> A good quote I read (I can't remember who it was from, though) is "If
> you need more than three levels of indentation, then something is
> seriously wrong with your code." Possibly Guido himself?

Linus Torvalds in the Linux kernel coding style document:

"[...] The answer to that is that if you need more than 3 levels of 
indentation, you're screwed anyway, and should fix your program."

(http://lxr.linux.no/linux/Documentation/CodingStyle)

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Roel Schroeven



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