Re: [patch] more comment cleanups

[Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com>]

Mark Kettenis wrote:
>> Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 08:33:59 +0400
>> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
>>
>>> So what do others think about source lines over 70 columns?
>> Enforcing a maximum length of 70 characters seems awfully low to me.
>> It's fine if someone decides to use 70 characters for his comments,
>> of even his code, but I think that 76 or 78 would give better results.
>> I even allow myself to go up to 80 when splitting a line makes it
>> particularly ugly and hard to read...
> 
> 70 characters really isn't that low for comments that start in the
> first column; look at a properly typeset book and count the number of
> characters per line.  However, I fully agree with you that it
> shouldn't be strictly enforced.  If for example, it means that you end
> up wrapping a single line comment such that you end up with a single
> word on the next line I strongly prefer not to wrap and keep the
> comment on one line such that it takes up less vertical space.
> 
> The same holds for code.  If I can keep things on a single line, I'll
> attempt to do so, even if it means I'll get a little bit closer to the
> 80 character "hard" limit.  It's one of the reasons I never believed
> in running tools like indent to automatically format source code.

OK, so at least we agree that there should be a "hard" limit at 80?
Really 79, otherwise emacs will wrap it?

I'd like to know that there is a "hard" limit, and I would like to
do some fixups of lines that are now too long.