"Steve Bergman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In my opinion, Guido's 80 character line limit hurts readability for no > good reason. (Even old, narrow, dot matrix printers can handle 96-132 > characters/line.)
It is not about what it can handle (IMHO), but about avoiding wrapped lines. I can make my Emacs 314 characters wide on my current screen, but that doesn't make it a good idea :-) With 80 characters per line, then you're pretty sure that everybody will see the lines unwrapped. I always hate it when my editor (Emacs) wrap the line in a more or less arbitrarily place, I much prefer the programmer to insert logical break-points. Long lines might also try to do too much stuff and code readability is often improved by splitting them up into two or three lines using a temporary variable. -- Martin Geisler --- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- http://mgeisler.net Read, write, create Exif data in PHP with PEL: http://pel.sf.net Take control of your webserver with PHP Shell: http://phpshell.sf.net
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