On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 12:13 PM, John Gordon <gor...@panix.com> wrote: > In <98u00kfnf...@mid.individual.net> Neil Cerutti <ne...@norwich.edu> writes: > >> You can fit much more code per unit of horizontal space with a >> proportionally spaced font. As a result, that issue, while valid, >> is significantly reduced. > > Is it? I assume one major reason for the 80-character limit is to help > the poor sod who will eventually get stuck working with your code on an > 80-column fixed width terminal window.
What environments with that limitation are still in common use? It's not the '70s anymore; I think we can safely increase the max column width a bit. Cheers, Chris -- http://rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
