Re: [Sbcl-devel] Line length in SBCL sources

[Harald Hanche-O. <ha...@ma...>]

+ "Thomas F. Burdick" <tf...@oc...>:

| That said, I'd hate to see comment blocks filled to 100 characters.
| Keeping the difference between the right and the left margins at
| around 80 characters is the programming equivalent to the textbook
| rules about line length.

Actually, that would be closer to 60 characters, or at least not above
70.  80 characters is really too wide, at least for solid block of
text that run on for more than five lines or so.

It's different for program code, of course, since the main reason for
long lines is bunches of white space in the left margin.

Which always makes me wish there was a way to put comments in that big
left margin.  (Well there /is/ a way, but not one that your average
programming editor - or emacs even - will handle gracefully.)

- Harald