>The group that wrote that book had a long debate about the 80 >character limit. But the majority a greed that 80 characters was >important for readability, especially if you view the code outside of >an IDE, which will be typical for this code base. Think about it, >there is a good reason why the n ewspaper makes articles narrow and not >use up the whole page for one line. Imagine how hard it wou ld be to >read. 80 characters also will work well for display in the source >browser and don't forge t about printing, make the lines bigger than 80 >and you're stuck with a small font or landscape.
Quite; many of our codereview tools expect a 80 columns output and/or support side-by-side diffs. 132 side-by-side just doesn't work for many people. Casper _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
