Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Feb 2004 21:09:43 +1100 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: PATCH, RFC: 2.6 Documentation/Codingstyle |
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Michael Frank wrote:
>On Friday 13 February 2004 17:10, Andrew Morton wrote: > >> >>Yes, 80 cols sucks and the world would be a better place had CodingStyle >>mandated 96 columns five years ago. But it didn't happen. >> >> > >As to "five years ago", what about review the coding style situation before >starting 2.7: > >In view of better hardware, increasing linelength a little to 96 could be >considered without increasing the number of indentation levels. > >
I hope not, I usually use 80 columns. Email's using 80 columns. And lines start becoming difficult for the eyes to follow as they get longer. Maybe this isn't so much a problem with C code due to indentation and the sparseness of the lines.
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