On 3/31/11 1:39 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
I would love that and think that it would be a _big_ improvement, but there
are some folks (Andrei in particular) who seem to really not like code going
beyond 80 characters. I do know that there are other Phobos devs who _do_ want
longer line lengths though, so maybe we can change this. Where this really
gets to be a problem is with lines with several levels of indentation, and
trying to restrict the line length (particularly to something short like 80
characters) tends to encourage overly short and non-descriptive variable and
function names, which is _not_ good.
Can't everyone that likes to keep the horizontal length to 80 characters use
word wrapping?
No, and please let's not take this one bit further.
Regarding this:
I absolutely think that I function should fit within a page of code
but the way to do that is NOT to write more compact code vertically.
It's to split the function in several smaller ones, split the classes
in smaller ones and split the modules smaller ones. That is clearly
something that Andrei and Walter doesn't seem to understand.
I'd opine that it's a bit assuming. Essentially it says that people who
don't code the way you like it are incapable of understanding elementary
modularity.
Thanks,
Andrei
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