On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 5:23 PM, Zdenek Styblik <zdenek.styb...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Really *shrug*. (now, you knew it had to come some time) Sometimes I
> even ask myself whether 80 chars width is still relevant nowadays.

yes! It is!

> Relevant for majority, that is. And I don't mean only code formatting
> now, but output as well. Oh, and I really mean it.

You might not like it, but that's the standard for pretty much everything.

There still exist many terminals which only support 80 columns of output.

> Anyway, what you've written makes sense, sort of. But don't do such
> thing in the middle of the code. Say, if this is done in function
> which does nothing else just these print-outs, that's fine. I don't
> think it's fine doing it in some nested code(not 100% relevant to
> 'ipmi_sdr.c' as the large help print-out is right at the beginning).
> In the end, it will be better to shove that help text into it's own function.
>

That's fine to put it in it's own function, but it wasn't before...
I mean really, I just find it really hard to believe that you'd think
that the way it was before was more readable.

thanks
dan

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