GCI Task review: breaking up long lines

Thomas Dörfler Thomas.Doerfler at embedded-brains.de
Wed Dec 5 07:54:22 UTC 2012


On 05.12.2012 07:25, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On 12/05/2012 06:08 AM, Joel Sherrill wrote:
>> Code is still printed and unless you enjoy small fonts and reviewing
>> printouts in landscape mode, it is a reasonable requirement.
>>
>> One could technically write code with no line breaks at all but that
>> would be unpleasant. :-)
> Provided what you write below, it's what you really should do.
> 
>> FWIW I am on an Open Group effort and all code examples, prototypes,
>> etc in the document have to be less than about 76 columns to print as
>> expected in the standard. 80 is generally a good for when printing.
> sigh, nowadays, probably all printing SW can handle this as part of the
> printing preparation process.

...which doesn't really make the code more readable. If it is ok that
the printout has the lines wrapped, why not wrap it from the start? ;-)
> 
> Ralf
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