[phobos] Column limits again

Simen Kjaeraas simen.kjaras at gmail.com
Sat Apr 9 16:13:11 PDT 2011


On Sun, 10 Apr 2011 01:02:30 +0200, Andrei Alexandrescu  
<andrei at erdani.com> wrote:

> I must bring this back into discussion because it seems the recent  
> traffic in the matter left the impression that "anything goes".
>
> We have a pull request  
> (https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/27) with at least  
> one line that is 195 characters long and others of comparable lengths.
>
> I think as far as presenting arguments the ship has sailed. Let's now  
> agree on a maximum line length. What should that be? 80? (Yes please.)  
> 100? 120? Give me your vote for a number, but please let's avoid  
> reviewing telex rolls going forward.

The longest line is actually 408 characters long. Ouch.

I'm firmly in the 80-char camp. That said, I'm not a Phobos contributor,
so perhaps I should keep my mouth shut (or my fists clenched, or whatever
the equivalent is for typing).

-- 
Simen


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