On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Aahan Krish <kr...@aahan.me> wrote: > > My question is to them (because I want to use tabs too) is: how do you > > maintain a line-length of 79 characters? > > > > E.g. scenario: The tab setting in your editor could be 2 or 4, and in > > other developer's browser it could be 8. The code will be longer than > > 79 chars in the latter's editor. > > Easy: You stop fretting about 79 characters. :) > I agree with this. Just settle with your team what's your standard and have similar IDE settings. > > If your policy is "lines are no more than 80-100 characters long", > then the difference between 4-space tabs and 8-space won't break stuff > unless it was already marginal. So if you run 4-space (or 2-space) > indentation, you just make sure you keep your lines to the lower end > of the limit. > > Even better, don't quibble about any sort of specific limit, and just > have a policy of "don't make stuff so long that it's unreadable, and > don't put silly arbitrary rules on your programmers". That's my > policy. > > ChrisA > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- Freelance Grails <http://grails.asia/> and Java <http://javadevnotes.com/> developer
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