too many lines too long

[David Fox]

I am concerned that 80 character lines discourages the use of
longerSymbolNamesLikeThis.  Which I really like.

On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 2:51 PM, Richard Eisenberg <eir at cis.upenn.edu> wrote:

> At both school and at home I can fit 3 80-character buffers side by side,
> at a comfortable font size. Going up (even to 85 cols) would mean losing a
> buffer. (Or straining my eyes.) Of course I can deal with wrapped lines.
> But I still vote for 80 characters as a target, while allowing people
> wiggle room to miss this target.
>
> The number 80 is with us for historical reasons, but I know I'm not the
> only one who still routinely uses 80-column buffers.
>
> Richard
>
> On Nov 9, 2015, at 5:45 PM, Simon Peyton Jones <simonpj at microsoft.com>
> wrote:
>
> > In my view 80 chars is too short.  It was justified in the days of
> 80-column CRTs, but that just isn't a restriction any more.   I routinely
> edit in a much wider window.
> >
> > Clearly there's a judgement call here.  But I'd prefer 120 cols say.
> >
> > Simon
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of
> Richard Eisenberg
> > Sent: 09 November 2015 21:03
> > To: ghc-devs Devs <ghc-devs at haskell.org>
> > Subject: too many lines too long
> >
> > Hi devs,
> >
> > We seem to be uncommitted to the ideal of 80-character lines. Almost
> every patch on Phab I look through has a bunch of "line too long" lint
> errors. No one seems to do much about these. And Phab's very very loud
> indication of a lint error makes reviewing the code harder.
> >
> > I like the ideal of 80-character lines. I aim for this ideal in my
> patches, falling short sometimes, of course. But I think the current
> setting of requiring everyone to "explain" away their overlong lines during
> `arc diff` and then trying hard to ignore the lint errors during code
> review is wrong. And it makes us all inured to more serious lint errors.
> >
> > How about this: after `arc diff` is run, it will count the number of
> overlong lines before and after the patch. If there are more after, have
> the last thing `arc diff` outputs be a stern telling-off of the dev, along
> the lines of
> >
> >> Before your patch, 15 of the edited lines were over 80 characters.
> >> Now, a whopping 28 of them are. Can't you do better? Please?
> >
> > Would this be ignored more or followed more? Who knows. But it would
> sure be less annoying. :)
> >
> > What do others think?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Richard
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