Re: line lengths

Dave Hall wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have been playing with PHP CodeSniffer recently ( see
> http://pear.php.net/package/PHP_CodeSniffer/ ).  It is a nice tool for
> checking compliance with coding standards.
> 
> Today we have been discussing using it as part of the ReSight project.
> This led me to take a quick look over the phpGW coding standard ( see
> http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/svn/phpgroupware/trunk/phpgwapi/doc/coding_standard.txt ). I noticed that we haven't define target and maximum line lengths.  I know this can turn into a religious debate, but I am hoping it doesn't :)
> 
> I think we have 3 options:
> 
> * Agree to not have a standard
> 
> * Make it maximum 80 characters - cos a console is only characters wide,
> but this ignores the fact that one shouldn't be hacking on code on a
> console a production box :)
> 
> * Make it something reasonable for today's technology and match our
> existing development approach.  I favour this option, with 100 as the
> target and 120 as the maximum.  My laptop is 1920x1200 so I can handle a
> lot more, but it starts to get hard to read at that point.
> 
> Please throw your 2 characters in :)
> 
> In the coming week or 2, Sigurd will be working on implementing the
> standard for phpGW in PHP CodeSniffer.  Once it is done, we will be
> putting it back into the tree (probably under
> phpgwapi/test/code_sniffer).  Then anyone can run the test over their
> code - preferably before checking their code in :) (hint hint)
> 

I would prefer to not have a standard for line lengths - as I believe it would
lead to a need for massive reformatting.

Regards

Sigurd