On Freitag, 27. November 2020 00:50:57 CET Jonathan Wakely via Gcc wrote: > I've touched on the subject a few times, e.g. > https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc/2019-December/230993.html > and https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc/2019-December/231013.html > > Libstdc++ code is indented by 2 columns for the enclosing namespace, > usually another two for being in a template, and is full of __ > prefixes for reserved names. On top of that, modern C++ declarations > are *noisy* (template head, requires-clause, noexcept-specifier, often > 'constexpr' or 'inline' and 'explicit', and maybe some attributes. > > All that gets hard to fit in 80 columns without compromising > readability with line breaks in unnatural places. > > Does anybody object to raising the line length for libstdc++ code > (not the rest of GCC) to 100 columns? > If you _do_ change it. I would suggest changing it to 120, which is next common step for a lot of C++ projects.
Often also with an allowance for overruns if that makes the code cleaner. 'Allan
