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I wonder what it looks like. Maybe we should keep replying to the same note to get it up to that point :)

It would be monumental to have an example in this very same node.

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Re^3: Too much indentation!
by grinder (Bishop) on Sep 15, 2008 at 10:15 UTC
    Having recently seen a thread get to Re15, I've got to second that notion.
    I wonder what it looks like. Maybe we should keep replying to the same note...

    You have a long way to go. Rather than fill up this thread with junk nodes, I know that Why is the execution order of subexpressions undefined? goes down 55 levels, so let's just link to that one instead (plus it's an interesting thread in its own right).

    I believe it's the Monastery record. Try viewing it on a mobile phone!

    • another intruder with the mooring in the heart of the Perl

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Re^3: Too much indentation!
by Lawliet (Curate) on Sep 15, 2008 at 01:13 UTC

    Irony at its paramount :P

    I'm so adjective, I verb nouns!

    chomp; # nom nom nom
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      Maybe the number of spaces should be inversely proportional to the number of replies. If only a space could be fractional...
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        It would be monumental to have an example in this very same node.

        Ok, I'm in.

        As for the problem, why not have the thread detach at say 6 levels and and be contained in its own block with indentation reset? Something like this: (No doubt easier said than done) 

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        I had also thought of this, albeit not exactly in terms of inverse proportionality: but indeed in terms of a monotone decreasing sequence of horizontal space. However:

        • we now have a solution, courtesy of ambrus;
        • it can actually be adapted to do just the above, provided that the amount becomes constant from some point on - presumably zero.
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        But you can! Use proportional spacing.

        Next (silly) indent goes below.

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