It was thus said that the Great A. Pagaltzis once stated:
> * Smylers <[email protected]> [2006-06-20 00:20]:
> > Also, I'm not that bothered how big indentation levels are, but
> > I do care that source code lines don't exceed 80 characters: I
> > want them to fit in a standard size terminal, to be readable in
> > an e-mail message, to be able to run diff on code and not find
> > the lines are so long that it takes a dedicated 'Where's
> > Wally'[*0] watcher to spot where the actual differences are.
>
> I never understood this.
>
> I tried to follow the rule for a long time, but I found that when
> a line is 200 characters long, you either did something wrong and
> should break it up into a few separate steps, at which point the
> matter solves itself. Or it really has to be 200 characters long,
> in which case all attempts to fit it into 80 column lines are
> contortions that serve no other purpose than to distract while
> reading but particularly while writing.
XSLT anyone? [1] There are quite a few lines I wrote in XSLT that exceed
200 characters (even if flush left, they would *still* be in excess of 200
characters).
-spc (But once having written the XSLT files, it's now trivial to add
pages and whole new subsections to my site ... )
[1] Self-inflicted hate. I thought it would be nice to store my website
[2] as XML and use XSLT to convert it to HTML pages (mostly to
autogenerate the nagivation links). A purely functional programming
language that is *more* annoying than Perl, Lisp *and* Forth put
together.
[2] For those that might be interested: http://www.conman.org/
