Re: [RFC] Change coding style rule: 80 column "hard limit" for ChangeLogs

[Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>]

> So how about a 74 soft limit and 80 hard limit for everything (modulo
> things like .exp files where we try to keep things under 80 but  some
> lines are just long and best left as is).
> 
> soft = "stay within the limit unless you have a reasonable reason to
> exceed, and we're not nitpicky on what reasonable is"
> 
> hard = "do not exceed unless you just cannot do otherwise, and while
> there are exceptions, we are quite nitpicky on this one"
> 
> Even that wording doesn't preclude different interpretations.  I'm
> happy to tweak it.  The high order bits for me are the same numbers
> for everything, and not being nitpicky on adherence to the soft limit.

I all works for me.

> If there are no objections, I will tweak your coding style cheat sheet
> wiki (just trying to save you the trouble, it's your page, feel free
> to edit as desired), and update other docs (the CodingStandards wiki
> doesn't exist, I'll create it and add something to get it going).

I don't consider it my property so feel free to edit and improve as
you see fit. The purpose is to have something as useful as possible
to others, and also as a way to keep track of past discussions that
lead to the various rules (hence HTML instead of texi). I initially
created it and put my name next to it to make it extra clear that
it's unofficial and WIP.

Now that gdbint has been moved to the wiki, I should probably think
of merging this with the rest of gdbinit at some point.

Thanks!
-- 
Joel