On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 13:41 -0500, bearophile wrote: [ . . . ] > I think 110 columns are a little too many. I have suggested 90-95 > chars max (but less than 80 on average) after seeing both the problems > caused by too much short lines (to keep lines below 70-80 chars I have > seen programmers use 2 spaces to indent or use very short variable > names. This is worse than 95 chars long lines), and seeing lines with > 120+ chars that cause troubles to older programmer that can't use a > too much small font because of their older eyes.
What say we cut the agist crap. Just because anyone over 50 (like me) has worsening eyesight doesn't mean they can't work quite happily with 110 character lines using 8pt fonts. I like 110 character lines in smaller fonts, and I like 2 space indents. And proportional fonts -- Ocean Sans MT rules -- why all this monospace font obsession (*). At the end of the day source code consistency is the only really important thing. Anyone amending a file or adding a file to a codebase must do it in the style of the current code so as to avoid spoiling consistency, and creating specious changes in version control. Just because I object to a coding style doesn't mean I can't use it if I am amending someone else code. Whoever is the project leader for a project defines a style and then everyone works with it -- even if that style is some crappy 80 column stupidity ;-) (*) Flame wars should be directed to /dev/null -- or if you insist on using Windows, whatever the equivalent is. :-) -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@russel.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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