I try to keep the meat of the statement to the first 80 characters and if some string goes out to say 200 characters, I don't really care. I just don't want to be surprised by some important thing off the screen.

-dain

On Aug 24, 2006, at 2:50 PM, Brian McCallister wrote:

I generally do 120 as well :-)

-Brian

On Aug 24, 2006, at 2:20 PM, Guillaume Nodet wrote:

Agreed.
120 is much more useful :)

On 8/24/06, Jason Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I think the 80 char limit is antiquated... now that most folks have
displays that can quite easily display more than 80 columns.
Limiting lines to 80 tends to force folks to artificially reformat
code which just uglies things up.

--jason


On Aug 24, 2006, at 1:56 PM, Sepand M wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> Do you have a coding style that I should go by?
> Specifically, do you use the 80 chars/line limit?
> I see a lot of code that doesn't, so I haven't, but it's bugging me
> more and more by the second.
>
> Regards,
> Sepand




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Guillaume Nodet

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