Hi coreboot folks,
I've just pushed a small RFC commit for our coding style: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/49542
From the commit message: It seems since the increase of the code line length to 96 chars, many developers felt encouraged to increase the line length of running text as well. However, text blocks wider than 72 chars are generally harder to read. Let's try to add a sane rule about it.
The addition: +This does not apply to running text, e.g. block comments. For text +blocks, the usual limit of 72 chars is strongly encouraged to increase +readability. This may be counted additionally to any indentation, but +the overall line length should not exceed 96 chars.
So, that's what it's about. I'd like to see all sorts of opinions on the matter. Maybe there is a reason to deviate from common typesetting rules that I just don't see yet. Generally, I'd prefer to not treat all text like code.
Nico
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Nico Huber