maybe no one else is replying---i usually get annoyed with overflow
lines---editor behaves strangely unless terminal set up right---so i like
an 80 character line limit--although I'm probably guilty as well of
violating it
also let me just register my general annoyance with these generation Y
small font guys---just a form of age discrimination if you ask me--grrr
td
On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, David A. Case wrote:
> In the process of fixing up Amber 10's qm2_dftb_gb code (see CVS logs), I
> again faced the line-length problem for sander code.
>
> It has been apparent for some time that lots of people are unwilling to live
> with 80 character lines, and maybe that is a good idea in a modern age. But
> I also don't think we should allow arbitrarily long lines either, just because
> some particular person (initials are RCW) likes to use a small font and a
> giant terminal. The code becomes very difficult to read for everyone else.
>
> So I'm looking for input: what do people think we should enforce as a line
> length limit? And, do we have any formatters for Fortran that do this?
> (We can use indent for C-code, but I don't know where things stand for F90
> code).
>
> ...thanks for your input....dac
>
Received on Wed Nov 22 2006 - 23:01:56 PST
