On 04/10/2011 01:12 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
I wanted to make it clear that this is not the time to bring again the
arguments, as there have been ample discussions on the topic in the
past. In particular your arguments that you now repeated have been
definitely read and understood, as well as refuted.
Well, I definitely disagree that they were refuted rather than only argued
against, but it's obvious that we're never going to agree.
To the extent the arguments were of the flavor "I can't figure how
anyone could find 80 columns enough", they were effectively refuted by
the simple fact that a lot of Phobos code does actually obey the limit.
This is the time to conclude all that discussion with a simple decision.
Again, clearly some limit must exist because current code editors don't
handle long lines satisfactorily and some contributors want to keep
editing windows less than most or full screen width.
I think a soft limit (very strongly recommended) of 80 columns and a
hard limit (absolute, forget about merging your code if you don't
observe) of 120 columns would be agreeable to all current and potential
contributors.
That's fine with me.
What I really don't want to see is a hard limit of 80. And I'll code to
whatever we decide. But I definitely would like it if we could just reach a
decision on this and be done with it.
OK. 80/120.
Andrei
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