On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > > > > But think what happens when someone views that 100-char code on 80-char > > terminal (or for example 94-char, that I used for some times too) --- > > every second line will be wasted with just 20 characters on the left. > > What kind of CRAZY crap argument is that? > > The current rule is 80 characters - but how many lines are actually even > close to 80 characters long? Very few. > > So that "every second line" statement is pure and utter idiocy. Instead, > what you get is totally the reverse: instead of wasting two lines _anyway_ > due to a hard-newline, you often get a single line instead (since most of > us don't work in 24x80 windows to begin with). > > Linus Function declarations are often larger than 80 characters. And if you wrap them at 100, you are wasting every second line on 80-character display. If you make line length unlimited, the space will be used optimally on all displays --- a function with 200 character declaration will use 3 lines on 80-character display and 2 lines on 100-character display. And besides --- wrapping at 100 doesn't fix the initial problem (why I posted this thread) --- that making any modification to the function header or long expression requires the user to manually realign the arguments. Mikulas -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
