It seems like such a random number, but I was just curious if there was any particular reason for using this many characters? https://domluna.github.io/JuliaFormatter.jl/stable/#JuliaFormatter.jl-1

I believe it’s more or less random. The Blue style guide https://github.com/invenia/BlueStyle suggests a line width of 92 and many people just used that because it was of the first ones and is also quite reasonable. I don’t think there is a specific reason for 92, the motivation is just that it’s…

Personally, I’m glad that it’s 92 characters. 93 would have been far too many.

80 columns was the size of an IBM punched card. I used them a lot at one time. IIRC Univac had an alternate punched card format with 96 columns.

92 is a nice number. I often use 100, but it’s actually a bit wide. 80 is way too narrow, and pointless with modern displays.

I guess the number 92 comes from Julia formatting guidelines: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#general-formatting-guidelines-for-julia-code-contributions .

The question has been asked before: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/9848 So it’s getting on to be a FAQ, like “where does the name Julia come from?”

I did a poll on this 2 years ago: [image] Line length limit poll Community When I code in Julia, I like to keep my line length below poll and 92 was the most common choice. I don’t think this value comes from any deep principles, it is just kind of a sweet spot for…

Does anyone know why JuliaFormatter uses a 92 character max line length?

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Does anyone know why JuliaFormatter uses a 92 character max line length?

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