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> This misses the point, same as Linus (which i honestly find surprising)... 80 width lines is a target to try to achieve _naturally_, The post is about changi
by zapzupnz 6y ago
> This misses the point, same as Linus (which i honestly find surprising)... 80 width lines is a target to try to achieve _naturally_,
The post is about changing code style formatting rules for code that goes into the Linux kernel. Not guidelines, rules. The tools in question, I presume to be a linter or formatter, complained noisily about line length prior to the adoption of this change.
It's not about someone misinterpreting guides as absolutes. It's very much about absolutes, in this case, that serve as guides.
- tomxor 6y ago> The post is about changing code style formatting rules for code that goes into the Linux kernel. Not guidelines, rules. Then it is about absolutes, the rule is absolute, but 80 width is a guide... being used as a rule. I'm surprised the first to challenge the rule is about grepability and not how detrimental it is to legibility to use this as a hard rule.