Re: [boost] coding style

From: Brian Gray (briangray_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-03-06 15:20:24

I'd say it's primarily the 80-column terminal limit that is the 
reasoning for this.  I personally only go to 79 columns so that when I 
work on a terminal and I type that 80th line the insertion pointer 
doesn't wrap.

Aside from that, on my current monitor (1152 pixels wide), I can get 2 
CodeWarrior source windows side-by-side at 80 columns, but not much 
more if I want to be able to see desktop icons on the side of it.  And 
it's very useful to have those two, usually a source file and its 
accompanying header.  So even if there were no such thing as a 
text-based terminal anymore, I'd still be in favor of limiting the 
number of columns to about what we're using.

  -- Brian