On Jan 7, 2014, at 3:22 PM, Cameron McCormack <c...@mcc.id.au> wrote:

> Patrick McManus wrote:
>> Typically I have to choose between
>>  1] 80 columns
>>  2] descriptive and non-abbreviated naming
>>  3] displaying a logic block without scrolling
>> 
>> to me, #1 is the least valuable.
> 
> Thoroughly agree.

I also agree with this.

Perhaps a compromise might be that we should aim for 80 columns except for 
cases where this would hurt readability, but have a hard limit at 100 columns. 
Given how verbose C++ is, an 80 column limit (for me) often ends up hurting 
readability more than it helps.

- Seth

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