Hard column wrap

[Matthew Newton]

On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 10:01:09AM -0400, Alan DeKok wrote:
> Arran Cudbard-Bell wrote:
> > For years the official maximum line length in the FreeRADIUS
> > has been 80 columns. There was no real reason for this other
> > than to satisfy our project leader's nostalga for VT100
> > displays.
> 
>   Well... not *just* VT100.

This is nearly moving forward to a VT220 with a 132 column
display...

...which is so hard to read you just set it back to 80 as soon as
possible. (Yeah, they're still useful for managing switches.)

I always try and code to 80 chars wide. Looking at code in a
default xterm is really annoying when it goes over 80 chars, and
it's hard to follow the code to the next line. But it's your
decision. My xterm will stretch.

> > switch (es)
> > {
> 
>   No... the brace goes on the same line as the switch statement.

Yuck - agreed. Function declarations on the next line, everything
else at the end of the same.


>   Half of my screen is taken up by brackets.  If you can't figure out
> what code belongs where from the indentation alone, you shouldn't be
> programming.

...and why unlang isn't a programming language, as you can't do 

  } else {

:-)

> > if (braceless)
> > 	alan_will_beat_you_with_sticks;
> > else if ((assignment = nested)
> > 	with clubs;
> 
>   Hmm.... clubs.

There's a spare bracket in that statement that could be used to
store the clubs, if required.

Matthew


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