On 5 Dec 2006 13:28:22 -0800, Steve Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
(...) > > I'm finding 100 to be a nice balance. It forces me not to be lazy and > allow really long lines, but allows me to format so as to make the > meaning most clear. > But if you use some advanced editors (such as Emacs) that easily allow you to see/edit the same file in two buffers side by side, then going beyond 80 chars is often a bad idea, specially if you use a laptop. (And, of course, there is the eternal issue of doing a simple "a2ps" to print some code; longer than 80 and you often have hard to read pages). Best, R. -- Ramon Diaz-Uriarte Statistical Computing Team Structural Biology and Biocomputing Programme Spanish National Cancer Centre (CNIO) http://ligarto.org/rdiaz -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
