[Insight-developers] cvs check-in verification

[Stephen R. Aylward]

Hi Dan,

:)  Your changes to the logger code are what prompted my email :)   The 
helper functions you added have lines longer than 100 characters and 
many opportunities to break them to less than 80 characters.

Isn't it, with VIM and emacs, that either (1) they wrap at 80 characters 
and look ugly (breaks visual formatting - making it harder to understand 
code written by others) or (2) you have to do a horizontal scroll or (3) 
you have to cursor to the line to see the rest of a long line?

These visual breaks and unnecessary movements are what prompted us to 
have an ITK design spec that "requires" an 80 character line limit.

I'm definitely open to there being exceptions to the rule - I am certain 
they exist and Bill will find them, but they should be exceptions... 
Many users (not just you by any means - you just set yourself up and I 
couldn't resist :) thanks :) ) don't follow the rule, so I think we need 
to consider new ways of upholding our standards (that really sounds 
pompous, but long lines are a pet peeve :) ) - ask Julien - I've been 
reformmating his code for years :)

Thanks,
Stephen

Blezek, Daniel J (GE, Research) wrote:
> My $0.02:  I personally dislike lines that are cut at 80 characters, seems to be a holdover from the bygone era of punch cards and Fortran.  And when was the last time you printed source code?  Xemacs is very good at handling long lines.
> 
> Of course I've never done punch cards and my monitor(s) resolution is 3200x1200 resolution...
> 
> -dan
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: insight-developers-bounces+blezek=crd.ge.com at itk.org
> [mailto:insight-developers-bounces+blezek=crd.ge.com at itk.org]On Behalf
> Of Lorensen, William E (GE, Research)
> Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 1:48 PM
> To: Julien Jomier; Stephen R. Aylward
> Cc: Insight Developers List
> Subject: RE: [Insight-developers] cvs check-in verification
> 
> 
> I think there may be cases where we have to exceed 80 characters.
>  I'll see if I can find an example.
> 
> Bill
> -----Original Message-----
> From: insight-developers-bounces+lorensen=crd.ge.com at itk.org
> [mailto:insight-developers-bounces+lorensen=crd.ge.com at itk.org]On Behalf
> Of Julien Jomier
> Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 9:17 AM
> To: Stephen R. Aylward
> Cc: Insight Developers List
> Subject: Re: [Insight-developers] cvs check-in verification
> 
> 
> We should be able to use KWStyle from the command line for this.
> I'm going to test it on a local CVS and check with Andy on how to 
> install it for ITK's cvs.
> 
> Julien
> 
> Stephen R. Aylward wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>What about adding CVS commit script to verify that none of the line 
>>lengths are beyond 80 characters?
>>
>>Some of the ITK code is hard to visually parse because line lengths are 
>>intermittently beyond 80 characters.   Seems to be happening more and 
>>more often.
>>
>>Stephen
>>
>>
> 
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Stephen R. Aylward, Ph.D.
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Kitware, Inc.
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