alright then, 4 it is. When you think about it, that's fine because you're not dealing with

int main(){
   c everything's indented in the main body
   return 0;
}
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nor does perl have the nested looping that you see so much with explicit indices. In reading the camel and llama book, I don't think I've seen nesting beyond 2 levels.

If anyone has what they think is an improvement over the default values that might be appropriate for someone coming up on acolyte status, I am--monkishly--all ears.