On 7/26/07, Tom Tobin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm starting to seriously wonder if the 80-character line width has > outlived its usefulness. There are various naturally occurring bits > of code that just don't fit onto a single 80-character line, and the > options for chopping it up are all sub-optimal; increasing the minimum > width would decrease the number of occasions on which one might need > to deal with this frustration. Docstrings and comments also find > themselves cramped for space after a few indentation levels.
Being a dope and replying to myself here ... while it certainly doesn't address all of the objections raised, I realized that my chief problem is with the *absolute* 80-character margin rather than 80-characters-per-line (i.e., what you'd get for line widths with [len(x.strip()) for x in somefile.readlines()] ). It seems fairly reasonable to expect most lines to constrain themselves to 80 characters *if* you don't account for indentation. Again, I know many of the objections would stand regardless (e.g., side-by-side windows), but I think this does clarify my thinking a bit (to myself, and hopefully to others, too). --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
