21 Apr
2009
21 Apr
'09
6:16 p.m.
according the several style guides, lines shouldn't be too long (longer than 78 characters).
Since Haskell is usually nice to parse, wouldn't it be interesting to replace a pretty printer program for layout manuals? I saw in your first link that the teacher provided a tool to check for non-compliant layout, but wouldn't it be easier to provide a pretty-printer (with line size as one parameter to the command line)? (By the way, I once saw in a latex tutorial that some research found that 66 letters was a good standard for running text readability. I was never able to find such research, it wasn't properly quoted in that tutorial, but I adopted 66 as a parameter to 'fmt' when writing messages and Haskell code.) Best, Maurício