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Hi, |
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Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>: |
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> > Lines with a width of 100 characters are hard to read, therefore I |
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> > would much prefer a more conventional value like 70 or 72. Maybe |
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> > with exceptions for some of the tables. |
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> > A good time for making such a change would be when EAPI 3 is |
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> > finished. What do you think? |
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> Oh heck no. There's no excuse for using 70 or 80 columns for source |
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> code any more. My old laptop can fit 100 across the screen |
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> comfortably, which is much cleaner to work with. |
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We don't talk about source code but continous text even if having some |
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mark-up around. And best readability for such text is around 60 |
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characters per line, languages with long words may have more. |
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> This bikeshed does not need repainting bright pink with orange spots. |
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And you don't want us to argue about the colour, right? |
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V-Li |
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Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project |
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<URL:http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode |
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<URL:http://gentoo.faulhammer.org/> |