On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 8:25 PM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote:
> On 4/16/2016 12:58 PM, Larry Martell wrote: > >> On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 12:51 PM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> >> wrote: >> >>> Larry Martell <larry.mart...@gmail.com>: >>> >>> 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. >>> >>> 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. >>> >> >> if we still had 1970's 80 character TTYs that would matter but on my >> 29" 1920x1080 screen it doesn't. >> > > It depends on whether one prefers to use the extra width to have long > lines or side-by-side windows. I prefer the latter. That's my use case as well, and why I admire the forethought in the width length. Side by side windows rock when doing TTD. -Sivan -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
