Bart Van Assche wrote: > There is a reason to limit line length: scientific research has shown > that readability of regular texts is optimal for a line length between > 55 and 65 characters.
Putting aside the point that we're talking code, not regular text, I've heard that said before and I don't think it's quite like that. Perhaps the numbers you said might assume various things such as the width of the eye's field of view, the distance to the image and the size of each character? > My experience is that the readability of source > code decreases when the lines are very long (more than 160 > characters). The point is that the width, excluding leading and trailing white space, is what really matters. Even deeply indented code can be a snap to understand if you don't have to fight artificial line breaks. And we've got a much wider -- and taller! -- space available than we had in the old 80x24 (and 80x1) days. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
