Re: Update of Coding standards line length

On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 10:42 +1100, Harley Bussell wrote: > It seems that the line length standard is a hold over from the days > when people had to work on low res terminal screens. I'm not aware of > any definitive stats but i would guess most developers would be > working on 1280*1024 + screens now. > > Personally working on a 1900*1200 screen the 80 character limit > detracts from readability instead of improving it. > > What would you think about increasing the limit to better suite modern screens? -1 I have a 1400x1050 screen and I have three terminals open side-by-side across the screen. For me, being able to open three files side-by-side is more productive than one file with longer lines. Cheers, Mike