No problem. You voiced a philosophical suggestion, I answered on that level. I think we both agree that the line length thing is a cosmetic nitpick, and are debating it for fun rather than seriously arguing about it.
I do predate you, for what it's worth. Cue Frank Hayes' song, _When I Was A Boy_: We walked forty miles to the schoolhouse, Barefoot, and uphill (both ways) Through blizzards both summer and winter Back in the Good Old Days When Fortran was not even Three-tran And the PC was only a toy We did our computing by gaslight When I was a boy -- /_ Joe Kesselman (he/him/his) -/ _) My Alexa skill for New Music/New Sounds fans: / https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09WJ3H657/ () I still don't think HTML mail is a good idea /\ but Outlook/Android is insisting. Need to change mail client. ________________________________ From: kriegaex (via GitHub) <g...@apache.org> Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2023 12:44:47 AM To: dev@xalan.apache.org <dev@xalan.apache.org> Subject: Re: [PR] Reformat Maven POM and assembly XML, no functional changes [xalan-java] kriegaex commented on PR #120: URL: https://github.com/apache/xalan-java/pull/120#issuecomment-1809583598 Sorry, I thought I saw longer lines in other places, too. BTW, at the age of 52 years I am very much aware of the historic roots of the 80 character limit. But I am also aware of the fact that next to no developer, not even old guys like us, work with 80 character terminals anymore. Even in vi or Nano, usually I work with way more characters per line, unless I need to work in a Linux root terminal. But there, I do not write programs but maybe edit some config file, if my Linux kernel refuses to boot. but even then, I can scroll horizontally. I think, us older semesters should not impose an 80 character limit on younger developers just because of the good old days. 120 characters is widely accepted in many OSS projects and still narrow enough fore me to fit more characters and a few tool windows on screen in my IDE. Besides, I was not reformatting the Java code, just a handful of POMs. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@xalan.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@xalan.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@xalan.apache.org
