On 08/17/2010 12:26 AM, James Mills wrote:
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 2:12 PM, AK<andrei....@gmail.com> wrote:
There's no doubt that there are pro's and con's, but to be fair, it's
not like code becomes unreadable over 79 chars - the difference is that
when your terminal is 80 chars, it's less convenient for you to read
code that's wider and when your terminal is wider, it's less convenient
to read code that's 79 chars.
I guess there are two-sides to the coin here so to speak. See I'm
vision impaired
so I prefer a 79 char width in my own projects and expect those that work
with me to use the same standards (stick to project standards as Steven says).
The other side is this... I'm of the opinion that if you're writing a
line of code
that's excessively long (>80char or say>100chars), then you might want to
reconsider what you're doing :) (It might be wrong).
I stay away from ugly cramped one-liners; I mostly run over 79 when I
have a few `and` and `or` clauses or long strings. I've also noticed
something interesting: going from 79 to 99 affects a relatively large
number of lines, but going over 99 (i.e. 99 to 132) is much, much rarer.
By the way, the reason I asked is that we're working on a python
tutorial and I realized that even though I'm used to 99, I wasn't sure
if it's ok to teach that to new users or not..
-andrei
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