Dusan Kolar wrote: ...
Or is the reason much deeper? Or, is the bound set to 78 characters just because it is as good number as any other?
... As a little historical detour I think the 80 character limit goes back to 1928 when IBM designed their punched card format
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card#IBM_80_column_punch_card_format I guess it subsequently got embedded into printing and screen widths and related software. The slightly less than 80 characters allows for CR LF characters. Richard. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
