On 19/3/20 7:06 am, Christian Mauderer wrote: > Hello Amar, > > On 18/03/2020 19:24, Amar Takhar wrote: >> The only one I would like to propose is the 80 character limit. This should >> be >> moved to something more reasonable such as 120. >> >> Code comments should remain below 80 however. >> > > I'm not a big fan of long lines (reason further below) but I won't block > it either. But what I think is really a bad idea is to have different > rules for different parts of the code.
And different parts of the project. > I think we will have a really hard time to set up tools like formatters > or pylint to check and use these rules. I think setting a line length to > 120 should be easy to possible for nearly any tool. But I expect that > setting it to 120 for code and 80 for comments can be _very_ difficult > depending on the tool. > > > PS: Reason for me being not a fan of long lines: While programming I > often use a split window. In that configuration my editor can show 112 > columns in each window on my current screen. That fits well for nearly > all code that follows the 80 character convention. But for example your > proposed length of 120 the code will lead to either a smaller font, a > lot of random line breaks done by the editor or to loosing one window. > Again: It's not a strong opinion and I'll accept 120 too. But expect > that some others have stronger opinions about 80 characters. I run everything in text mode under tmux and in Emacs I split vertically and variable length is painful and prefer we settle on 80. Chris _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@rtems.org http://lists.rtems.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
