From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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To: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> |
Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Updating line length guidelines |
Date: | 2017-08-21 00:25:02 |
Message-ID: | 548952f1-5af4-78d9-5c33-12cce47fba0d@commandprompt.com |
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On 08/20/2017 09:32 AM, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2017-08-20 09:29:39 -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> On 08/20/2017 07:49 AM, Andres Freund wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> We currently still have the guideline that code should fit into an 80
>>> character window. But an increasing amount of the code, and code
>>> submissions, don't adhere to that (e.g. copy.c, which triggered me to
>>> write this email). And I mean outside of accepted "exceptions" like
>>> error messages. And there's less need for such a relatively tight limit
>>> these days. Perhaps we should up the guideline to 90 or 100 chars?
>>
>> Considering the prominence of high resolution monitors and the fact that we
>> don't really review patches (outside of commentary) in email much anymore,
>> it seems that may even be a bit archaic. On my standard FHD screen using a
>> standard size font I have a line length of 210 before I wrap.
>
> People commonly display multiple buffers side-by-side... But leaving
> that aside, longer and longer lines actually become just hard to read
> and hint that statements should be broken across lines / indentation
> reduced by splitting inner blocks into their own functions.
Good point. I think ~ 100 is probably a good idea.
JD
>
> - Andres
>
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