From: Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com>
To: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
apw@canonical.com, davej@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: remove the 80 charactes punch card limit
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:07:01 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B6080C5.7020306@austin.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1264597747.3607.29.camel@wall-e>
> The time of 80 characters punch card and terminals are over, so i would
> be a good thing to set the line length limit to 120. Every display today
> should be able handle this.
>
Nack.
While the origins of 80 character lines dates back to punchcards there
is a reason it has survived the test of time. Lines that go longer are
hard to comprehend. Either they are long themselves, in which case
breaking them up into smaller chunks on multiple lines helps
readability, or they are starting from deep indentation, in which case
the function should be refactored or broken up so the logic is more
digestable.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-27 18:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-27 13:09 [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: remove the 80 charactes punch card limit Stefani Seibold
2010-01-27 18:07 ` Joel Schopp [this message]
2010-01-27 19:01 ` David Daney
2010-01-27 20:31 ` Joel Schopp
2010-01-27 20:42 ` David Daney
2010-01-27 21:36 ` Stefani Seibold
2010-01-28 15:54 ` Andi Kleen
2010-01-28 16:39 ` Alexander Clouter
2010-01-29 5:19 ` tytso
2010-01-29 18:49 ` Joe Perches
2010-02-01 10:53 ` Simon Farnsworth
2010-01-28 17:58 ` David Daney
2010-01-28 16:01 ` Krzysztof Halasa
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