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 can fit two 63-character terminals side by side on my screen, so that's the size I usually use. The width also corresponds to an portrait a4 page w/o margins, so I can usually read code by just moving my eyes vertically. I think the best shape for code is approximates 1:sqrt(2), landscape : you shouldn't go 78 characters before you've hit a function length of 55.154328932550705 lines or such. This is Haskell, of course. With Java, I tend to sit at least a meter further apart from the screen and have the console span both monitors, after all, you somehow have to fit at least a single identifier on a line... -- (c) this sig last receiving data processing entity. Inspect headers for copyright history. All rights reserved. Copying, hiring, renting, performance and/or quoting of this signature prohibited.