[ofa-general] Re: Merging of completely unreviewed drivers

[Bart Van Assche]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 2:46 AM, David Newall <davidn at davidnewall.com> wrote:
> Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
>  > Perhaps we should increase line length limit, 132 should be fine.
>  > Especially useful with long printk() lines and long arithmetic
>  > expressions.
>
>  Yes; or even longer.  80 characters might have made sense on a screen
>  when the alternative was 80 characters on a punched card, but on a
>  modern computer it's very restrictive.  That's especially true with the
>  deep indents that you quickly get in C.  Even short lines often need to
>  be split when you put a few tabs in front of them, and that makes
>  comprehension that bit harder, not to mention looks ugly.

There is a reason to limit line length: scientific research has shown
that readability of regular texts is optimal for a line length between
55 and 65 characters. My experience is that the readability of source
code decreases when the lines are very long (more than 160
characters).

Bart Van Assche.