From: Theodore Papadopoulo <Theodore.Papadopoulo@sophia.inria.fr>
To: law@redhat.com
Cc: Diego Novillo <dnovillo@redhat.com>, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Thoughts on doxygen for internal documentation
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 18:18:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200301161803.h0GI3DYV018983@mururoa.inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200301161753.h0GHrpt7009736@localhost.redhat.com>
law@redhat.com said:
> I'll note that /** is contrary to the GNU coding standards.
Not really answering in this thread, but this kind of comment make me
often wonder whether these coding conventions are sometimes reviewed
and updated. The world is changing around us, the rules should change
accordingly....
As an example, I always wondered why the rule of 80 columns is still
that strict. IMHO often code can be more readable using longer lines
(still with a reasonnable limit, just an higher one). Yes I know, some
people still have a very old 80 columns VT100, but those cannot be
that many ? Indeed, mail reader sometimes have this 80 limit constraints,
but then problems with line wrapping by mailers happen also with 80
columns... So why keeping this constraints and not updating it to
something more sensible such as eg 132 colums.
In some sense, this is exactly the same debate as the one of ANSI C
conversion. Should we keep rules that were certainly very sensible
at the time they were written but that are now obsolete at least for
99% of the users/developpers.
Not really willing to launch a debate, but just wondering why these
rules are so rigid...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-16 18:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-15 23:48 Diego Novillo
2003-01-16 10:47 ` Phil Edwards
2003-01-16 18:12 ` law
2003-01-16 18:14 ` Diego Novillo
2003-01-16 18:16 ` law
2003-01-16 18:18 ` Theodore Papadopoulo [this message]
2003-01-16 18:57 ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2003-01-16 19:11 ` law
2003-01-16 19:53 ` Andrew Haley
2003-01-16 23:36 ` Toon Moene
2003-01-16 19:18 ` Joel Sherrill
2003-01-16 19:35 ` Marc Espie
2003-01-16 19:37 ` Andrew Haley
2003-01-16 19:57 ` Theodore Papadopoulo
2003-01-17 0:26 ` Daniel Egger
2003-01-17 16:15 ` Daniel Berlin
2003-01-19 5:09 ` Daniel Egger
2003-01-16 18:20 ` Diego Novillo
2003-01-16 18:27 ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2003-01-16 18:29 ` law
2003-01-16 18:25 ` Daniel Berlin
2003-01-17 4:00 ` Kurt Wall
2003-01-16 20:03 ` Joseph S. Myers
2003-01-17 11:05 ` Tony Finch
2003-01-18 22:21 ` Daniel Egger
2003-01-18 16:17 Robert Dewar
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