Re: Update of Coding standards line length
| From: | Ken Guest | Date: | Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:57:24 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Update of Coding standards line length | ||
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On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 11:42 PM, Harley Bussell <harley@zealphp.com> 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.
I would hazard a guess that your code needs a lot of refactoring-love.
I've had occasions where I've needed to work/analyse code printouts to usual
A4 sheets to which
the 80 character limit fits nicely - any more and longer lines become
difficult to make sense of.
What would you think about increasing the limit to better suite modern
> screens?
-1
k.