* with practically every modern IDE (say, Eclipse for Java), indentation is a non-issue. part of this discussion here is just because we are missing proper tools. (Or not using.) * indentation should be by fixed amounts (e.g. 4 spaces for each level) and not depend on lengths of identifiers (because you might later change them) (well, actually you won't because we don't have Refactor->Rename that would be aware of namespaces, modules etc.) * A lot of my code is written for teaching, in fact I try to write all code in such a way that it could be shown to students, and so I try to use less than 40 chars per line because more won't fit on a slide. And, the slide holds at most 10 lines, so this gives a pretty clear bound on the size of a function. If it's larger, then it needs to be refactored. (Well, probably it won't, see above remark on tools.) J.W. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/breaking-too-long-lines-tp23136175p23232160.html Sent from the Haskell - Haskell-Cafe mailing list archive at Nabble.com.