Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Feb 2004 12:42:32 +0100 | From | Andries Brouwer <> | Subject | Re: PATCH, RFC: 2.6 Documentation/Codingstyle |
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On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 09:58:02AM +0100, Giuliano Pochini wrote:
>> +The limit on the length of lines is 80 columns and this is a hard limit. > > Well, I think this requirement is a bit silly IMHO. How many of us > do usually code in a 80x25 terminal screen nowadays ?
I do. (That is, 80xN with N in 24..60 or so.)
The 80 here has a pedagogical and a practical purpose. The practical one is that it makes sure that everybody can read the source. The pedagogical is to invite you to arrange the code in a different way if you are nesting too deeply or your expressions are too complicated.
There is also ergonomics. There is a reason newspapers do not print text across the full width of the page - it would be very difficult to read. There is an optimal column width. One might fight over the exact value of the optimum, but 80 columns is not a bad choice.
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