On 3/31/11 3:20 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:

On 31 mar 2011, at 20:58, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

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.

So you just want to end the discussion when someone disagrees with you?

This is a misunderstanding. I just wanted to preempt a discussion along the lines "but why?" to which some arguments would be made followed by "but you could try X, would that work?" etc. People have tried, and for the time being there is no satisfactory solution for auto wrapping.


Andrei
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