On Fri, 2011-09-30 at 12:32 +0300, Tanu Kaskinen wrote: [...] > I'm not against making the comments wider. What width would you be happy > with? 100? I propose that something like the following is added to the > CodingStyle document so that there won't be any bikeshedding in the > future regarding this issue: > > "The recommended maximum line length of 128 is a bit much for comments. > Comments should be wrapped at X characters. If you prefer, comments with > only few lines can also use shorter line length, but in order to > conserve vertical space, very long comments should always be wrapped at > X characters." > > The latter sentence is there, because I think it reflects the current > practice, but it would be ok to me if the second sentence would be > dropped, and the recommendation would be to always wrap at X characters. > > What do others think? Is 100 the best number? Or 80? Or 89? I'm fine with 80, tbh. -- Arun
