On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 11:48:19AM -0800, David Mosberger wrote: > >>>>> On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 11:42:52 -0800, Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> said: > > >> Well, I don't like how you "fixed" some of them and I continue > >> to be of the opinion that 100 cols is OK (yes, I know that > >> somebody managed to get the 80 cols into the kernel formatting > >> document, but that doesn't change reality...). > > Jesse> Yeah, I know, but your opinion is wrong :) I often find > Jesse> myself editing files on VTs or other 80 col terminals, and > Jesse> long lines are a pain... > > It's not opinion, it's reality. Unless someone goes through all the > files in the top-level directories and formats them to 80 cols, this > won't change. Personally, I don't mind it too much when code wraps a little bit. But the comments wrapping after 80 columns *really* bugs me. Probably because code has to read slower than prose anyway. -- "Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception." -- Mark Twain - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Thu Jan 6 15:06:26 2005
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