It looks like people were generally in favor of bumping up the 80 column width limit, but we didn't really make a decision. It can be rather difficult to come to an agreement when we are dealing with a sliding scale (80 columns? 100? 120? Personally I prefer 117.5.) So let's take it one step at a time. We can start with the question:
Should we increase the 80 column width limit for source code to 100 columns?
If the result is affirmitive, we can then consider further increasing it to 120.
My vote for moving to 100 columns is +1.
Jeremy http://xirr.com/~jeremy_a
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Can we revisit the rule about 80 column width? Who here is doing development in a 640x480 environment? I find the waste of vertical space by something like this annoying:
setMethods.add( objectClass.getMethod( "set" + propertyNames[i], new Class[] { propertyClasses[i] }));
80 seems draconian, even for 5 year old monitors. I use 160 generally, and I have no trouble seeing an entire line (I use 1600x1200 display size). Something between these two probably constitutes a happy medium for all of us that conserves both vertical and horizontal space.
What do people say? Who out there needs an 80 column max? Can people go to 120 or higher?
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