On Friday 28 August 2009, Magnus Lundin wrote: > So why this totally idiotic requirement on 72-80 columns ????
Far from "idiotic"... It's a widely adopted policy which, among other things, supports side-by-side display windows and two-column-per-page printer output. In the same way, I've noticed many IDEs like to tile windows, and that includes text edit or source stepping. Long lines work poorly there too; it's another case of not-enough-space. Plus it has good side effects. Indents stay more reasonable, encouraging more modular code with more manageably bite-sized functions; and there's less hassle reviewing patches. If I were going to throw abusive words around I'd apply them to lines so long that they *require* use of extra-large windows, which prevent a lot of very common development techniques. Say what you will about 80 character conventional line sizes, but they aren't going to *FORCE* everyone else to adopt any of the idiosyncracies of your particular work style and toolset. - Dave _______________________________________________ Openocd-development mailing list Openocd-development@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/openocd-development
