Re: [Docutils-develop] Adding type hints directly to docutils?

[Stephen F. <st...@th...>]

On Wed, 2024-04-17 at 09:03 -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Apr 2024 11:02:11 +0100
> Stephen Finucane <st...@th...ru> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2024-04-16 at 19:45 +0000, Guenter Milde via Docutils-develop
> > wrote:
> 
> > > "black" seems too rigid to me (practicability beats purity),
> > > especially as we have a large codebase with long legacy and must
> > > rely on "git blame" in many cases to find out whether some legacy
> > > code may be dropped or has a reason...  
> > 
> > I too have some concerns with the style of black-formatted code - as
> > I do with the style of gofmt-formatted Go code - however, it _is_
> > robustly maintained, requires little to no configuration on our end,
> > and effectively allows formatting to be ignored by developers.
> 
> Unsolicited input.  It seems now would be the time to comment,
> even though I am unlikely to ever be involved.
> 
> I like (the traditional) 79 char line length limit.
> black --line-length 79 ...
> isort --line-length 79 ...
> 
> (Black defaults to 88.)
> 
> There's a reason newspapers are written in columns.
> The eye must track back from the end of one line
> to the beginning of the next.  This is disturbed by
> over-long lines.

I agree.

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Karl <ko...@ka...>
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