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SubjectRe: PATCH, RFC: 2.6 Documentation/Codingstyle


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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