"James Mills" <prolo...@shortcircuit.net.au> wrote in message
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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
That's not a good argument for everyone else to do the same. Someone else
might prefer 40 columns for similar reasons.
(Anyway can't a 100-column width be squeezed into the same angular field as
80-columns, just by using a narrower font, when necessary? Assuming the
problem is field width rather than acuity)
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 generally use 100 columns. It's useful for being able to write same-line
comments with meaningful content...
(I've used 80-column hardware (teletypes and such) years ago, I thought such
restrictions had vanished long ago)
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Bartc
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