On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:09:38 -0300 Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demar...@profusion.mobi> said:
> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Carsten Haitzler <ras...@rasterman.com> > wrote: > > then you wrap at 85.. then you say "but if we made it a little wider it'd be > > nicer" so it become 90, then "if its a bit wider" 95.. and so on. it doesn't > > end until you cease wrapping entirely. i think trying to stick to 80 wide is > > good. > > Your words: i think *trying* to stick to 80 wide is good. > > I think it's good too. And it's not scaling up. You have to fit in 80 > columns, but there are exceptions. Automatic tools will not allow that > exceptions. The most enlightenment email thread about this issue I've > ever read is: > http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2009/11/12/4507182 > > > it's not a magic number invented for efl coding. > > I know, but imho people get the rule of 80-char too strict and forget > its intent (see what Linus said on that thread). I'm all for warnings, > so people will think better about that chunk, not just reformatting. the problem with exceptions is that we no longer can easily maintain formatting. it's hell as-is. we still have to police other formatting bits anyway. i'd want formatting fixed by automatic tools - if we have to write our own perl or whatever scripts to do it. -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
