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Re: Source code formatting: line length limit?
From: |
Kai Großjohann |
Subject: |
Re: Source code formatting: line length limit? |
Date: |
Sun, 26 Jan 2003 15:48:05 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.090015 (Oort Gnus v0.15) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) |
"Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/address@hidden> writes:
> I happen to think that 60 columns is more legible, but I also think
> that in most cases, source code that spans 80 columns is perfectly legible
> because almost none of the lines actually takes more than 60 columns
> of text.
I think both of you implicitly imply that text *over* 80 columns is
bad and should be avoided.
Could you make this explicit?
To illustrate my problem: I have just reformatted source code from
something like 120 columns to something below 80. Should I revert
this change, making the lines longer again? Some of the changes
produced rather awful-looking code because the code is nested very
deeply.
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