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

David Sanders wrote: > David Sanders (http://pear.php.net/user/shangxiao) has commented on the proposal for > RFC::Coding standard enhancements. > > Comment: > > 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. Because with some editors that wrap long lines back to column 1, it becomes more difficult to follow the flow of the code. It is more advantageous to break and indent the line at appropriate places to have a nice visual structure of the code. > Proposal information: > http://pear.php.net/pepr/pepr-proposal-show.php?id=538