On 80 columns should (not) be enough for everyone

[bearophile]

Andrei:

> Seems reasonable. Since both Jonathan and Don prefer longer lines, I'm 
> now more inclined to increase and/or soften the recommended limit for 
> Phobos.

I think 110 columns are a little too many. I have suggested 90-95 chars max (but less than 80 on average) after seeing both the problems caused by too much short lines (to keep lines below 70-80 chars I have seen programmers use 2 spaces to indent or use very short variable names. This is worse than 95 chars long lines), and seeing lines with 120+ chars that cause troubles to older programmer that can't use a too much small font because of their older eyes.

Bye,
bearophile