Re: [PEPr] Comment on RFC::Coding standard enhancements

On Sat, 2008-08-03 at 01:57 +0000, David Sanders wrote: > David Sanders (http://pear.php.net/user/shangxiao) has commented on the proposal for > RFC::Coding standard enhancements. > > Comment: > <snip> > But my question here is why do we still need 85 characters as the limit? > Is it because code might get emailed? We're not living in the 1980's > anymore... so viewing and printing don't seem to be an issue. This came > about again for me with File_Infopath when I started to add Xpaths which > pushed the line length right out past 85 chars. It was much more readable > to have it all on the one line rather than concatenate strings together on > separate lines. I use three 80-character-wide terminals side-by-side for PHP development. I may be in a minority here but the line length limit is really beneficial to my development style. > Proposal information: > http://pear.php.net/pepr/pepr-proposal-show.php?id=538 > > -- > Sent by PEPr, the automatic proposal system at > http://pear.php.net >