On Fri, 2011-09-30 at 13:31 +0300, Colin Guthrie wrote: > 'Twas brillig, and Arun Raghavan at 30/09/11 10:35 did gyre and gimble: > > 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. > > I'm not particularly bothered but 80 has always sat well with me just > because that's the kinda traditional marker (and the faint line that's > printed in my editor too - although that is obviously configurable). > > I don't really mind either way tho'. It seems to me that there's not much enthusiasm for saving vertical space, so I think I won't need to reformat my patch? -- Tanu
