I ignored this point on purpose, to be more succint. But yes, it could be possible to have a soft limit (e.g. 80, or 100) and then you would have to set a hard limit (say, 85 or 105). But in the end you'd end up having someone who complains because their beautiful line was 84 chars and after adding the closing paren and the semicolon, it got wrapped into something that they don't like because subjective tastes.
So in the end, we just moved the goalpost +5 chars.
I ignored this point on purpose, to be more succint. But yes, it could be possible to have a soft limit (e.g. 80, or 100) and then you would have to set a hard limit (say, 85 or 105). But in the end you'd end up having someone who complains because their beautiful line was 84 chars and after adding the closing paren and the semicolon, it got wrapped into something that they don't like because subjective tastes.
So in the end, we just moved the goalpost +5 chars.