Dusan Kolar <ko...@fit.vutbr.cz> wrote: > Dear all, > > reading that > > > according the several style guides, lines shouldn't be too long > > (longer than 78 characters). > > > > http://www.cs.caltech.edu/courses/cs11/material/haskell/misc/haskell_style_guide.html > > http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Programming_guidelines > > > I would like to know, whether 78 characters bound still makes a > sense... Even if I connect to my linux box with text terminal, it is > not a 80x24 characters HW text terminal, but a window emulating this > in whatever else OS, thus, I can usually extend this to see longer > lines easily. > > Or is the reason much deeper? Or, is the bound set to 78 characters > just because it is as good number as any other? > I can fit two 63-character terminals side by side on my screen, so that's the size I usually use. The width also corresponds to an portrait a4 page w/o margins, so I can usually read code by just moving my eyes vertically. I think the best shape for code is approximates 1:sqrt(2), landscape : you shouldn't go 78 characters before you've hit a function length of 55.154328932550705 lines or such.
This is Haskell, of course. With Java, I tend to sit at least a meter further apart from the screen and have the console span both monitors, after all, you somehow have to fit at least a single identifier on a line... -- (c) this sig last receiving data processing entity. Inspect headers for copyright history. All rights reserved. Copying, hiring, renting, performance and/or quoting of this signature prohibited. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe