Max length of a LOC: poll results (Was: On 80 columns...)

[Tomek Sowiński]

Tomek Sowiński napisał:

> Actually that's a splendid idea. Let's take it easy. Regardless of that silly beef I'm really curious what distribution will emerge.
> 
> What is your preferred *maximum* length for a line of D code? (please reply with a number only)
 
Alright, I'm wrapping up this toy study. Two things before the numbers come:

 - A few respondents gave 2 numbers, one "reasonable", the other "if I really have to". I took the latter (larger) number as I was after maximum length, something usable as a setting for a repository hook.
 - 2 respondents said "no limit". I excluded them from computations, albeit it's a valid answer. 1 respondent answered "1 mole" which I also excluded as a 22-order-of-magnitude outlier.

> lengths = c(80, 80, 110, 120, 80, 80, 100, 100, 120, 110, 90)
> summary(lengths)
   Min. 1st Qu.  Median    Mean 3rd Qu.    Max. 
  80.00   80.00  100.00   97.27  110.00  120.00 
>
> sd(lengths)  # standard deviation
[1] 16.18080
>
> quantile(lengths, c(.1, .25, .5, .75, .9))
10% 25% 50% 75% 90% 
 80  80 100 110 120 
>
> library(moments)
> skewness(lengths)  # take with a grain of salt, little data
[1] 0.1645005
>
> length(lengths) # count
[1] 11

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Tomek