Edward Kmett <ekm...@gmail.com> writes:
> I find a hard 80 character line length limit to be somewhat ridiculous in this
> day and age. I've long since revised my personal rule of thumb upwards towards
> 132, if only because I can still show two windows of that side by side with no
> worries, along with all the IDE browsing baggage, even on a fairly crippled
> laptop, and I've been able to have 132 columns since I picked up my first
> vt220 terminal in 1984 or so.
>
I prefer 3 coding windows side by side. And being able to
read one line at a glance is a huge advantage. The size of
my urxvt is 80x77 FYI.
> It seems silly _25 years later_ to still not be able to have even that much
> breathing room.
It is not silly. With larger monitor, I can fit more
windows side by side.
>
> Shorter lengths work very poorly in languages like C# with long LINQ queries,
> you tend to have verbose enough member and method names that you obtain some
> pretty ridiculous splits. You wind up with some similar scenarios with list
> compehensions in Haskell.
I know nothing about C#, and I don't care about that. In
Haskell, your list comprehension would be much more
readable, if you break your lines. The same as complex RE
in perl code.
> I'm not saying that every line should be 130+ characters long, I'm just saying
> that 132 characters seems like a more natural hard cut off point.
>
> -Edward Kmett
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