-------- From: Paul Beardsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > in favor of 80-column text is just that
> So I wondered what the general opinion of boost developers is on this issue, I am in favor of 72 column lines myself. This allows me to have three comfortable columns of code on the screen at once. It also makes printing easy. It means that I don't have to scan my eyes over and over and over to the right to see what a line means. I don't have to keep scanning six inches from left to right, rather than up and down a half cm. Also editing long lines is more difficult. It is much easier (for me) to comment out lines and insert different lines of a multi-line statement. It is easier to see what is changed with shorter lines. Patches are clearer with short line lengths. I find other people's code with long linelengths is cause by either too much nesting or by putting too many concepts on one line... Joel _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
