Re: Source code formatting: line length limit?

[kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann)]

"Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu> writes:

> I happen to think that 60 columns is more legible, but I also think
> that in most cases, source code that spans 80 columns is perfectly legible
> because almost none of the lines actually takes more than 60 columns
> of text.

I think both of you implicitly imply that text *over* 80 columns is
bad and should be avoided.

Could you make this explicit?

To illustrate my problem:  I have just reformatted source code from
something like 120 columns to something below 80.  Should I revert
this change, making the lines longer again?  Some of the changes
produced rather awful-looking code because the code is nested very
deeply.
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