On Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 10:22:10 PM UTC+5:30, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > Larry Martell : > > > I have worked for many companies where you are required to get a clean > > run of pep8 on your code before your pull request will even be > > considered for approval. I don't agree with this at all, as I think it > > makes the code very ugly, especially enforcing the max line length. > > Agh, I was with you until your last remark.
Count me in the "80-chars is ante-deluvian gunk" camp > > A max line length of 79 characters is among the *only* rigorous > principles I judge coding style on. > > It comes with the maxim that one function must be visible at once on the > screen. Thats a strange self-contradiction. I wrote this: http://blog.languager.org/2012/10/layout-imperative-in-functional.html to make the case against PEP8 style line length strictures. Which has the SAME code formatted in two styles: -- < 80 cols, 48 lines -- 115 cols 37 lines Clearly the 115 cols is MORE fittable in a page than the 80 cols [Though my argument for that is based on other structural/semantic principles] Should mention an irony here though: When I first wrote it, the examples were inline and blogger was breaking the lines randomly completely invalidating my point. IIRC blogger was breaking at 68 cols -- invalidating the 80 cols from the other side. Clearly 80 cols is more portable than longer. However if we literally implement the view that different people use different technologies -- AND WE SHOULD SUPPORT THEM ALL -- then notepad becomes the ineluctable gold standard. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
