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?

Regards,

 Dušan

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