Dusan Kolar
Dear all,
reading that
according the several style guides, lines shouldn't be too long (longer than 78 characters).
http://www.cs.caltech.edu/courses/cs11/material/haskell/misc/haskell_style_g... http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Programming_guidelines
I would like to know, whether 78 characters bound still makes a sense... Even if I connect to my linux box with text terminal, it is not a 80x24 characters HW text terminal, but a window emulating this in whatever else OS, thus, I can usually extend this to see longer lines easily.
Or is the reason much deeper? Or, is the bound set to 78 characters just because it is as good number as any other?
I believe it is a good practice too keep each line short and easy to read. The following is taken from python style guide. Maximum Line Length Limit all lines to a maximum of 79 characters. There are still many devices around that are limited to 80 character lines; plus, limiting windows to 80 characters makes it possible to have several windows side-by-side. The default wrapping on such devices disrupts the visual structure of the code, making it more difficult to understand. Therefore, please limit all lines to a maximum of 79 characters. For flowing long blocks of text (docstrings or comments), limiting the length to 72 characters is recommended. http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/ P.S. We really need such a well written style guide for haskell. Python has this nice PEP (Python Enhancement Proposals). Should we start making our own HEP? -- c/* __o/* <\ * (__ */\ <