Simon Peyton Jones <simo...@microsoft.com> writes: > In my view 80 chars is too short. It was justified in the days of > 80-column CRTs, but that just isn't a restriction any more. I > routinely edit in a much wider window. > As far as a hard length limit is concerned I am with Simon here. 80 characters is quite short and some of the more "tabular" source files of GHC would be on the whole less readable if such a limit were strictly enforced.
On the other hand, I agree that in many cases 80-characters is quite a convenient length; having several buffers side-by-side can make reading much easier. Many of the files with long-lines could and should be fixed. However, I am not convinced that this is true for *all* source files and in my opinion a bit of discretion doesn't hurt. Cheers, - Ben
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