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bug#66264: Disable warning about wide doc strings by default
From: |
Stefan Kangas |
Subject: |
bug#66264: Disable warning about wide doc strings by default |
Date: |
Sun, 23 Feb 2025 01:19:38 +0000 |
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
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> > > This is a proposal to disable the warning about doc string line length
> by default.
>
> > Thanks, but I'm against this change. It has been, and continues to
> > be, tremendously useful in making sure our doc strings are in a good
> > shape.
>
> I agree. The point of a warning is to remind programmers to write
> things the way that will give good results, and the width of a doc
> string is part of what determines whether it gives good results
> when users look at it.
FWIW, I'd be in favor of making this change.
However, it seems like we don't have a consensus on this, so I don't
think we'll make much more progress here. I'm therefore closing this
bug report. Sorry.
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