Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> writes: > Sure, a 500-character line is less readable than a 75-character line.
So we agree that merely being able to *display* more text on a line is not a reason to have arbitrarily-long lines of code. Good! > But how much difference is there between 79 and, say, 90? I'd say > there's more variation between different people than that. Of course there is. The argument then becomes one of picking a standard and sticking to it, since doing so saves an enormous amount of wasted time arguing. Much as we can agree that driving a vehicle on public roads at 500 km/h is too fast, but there is variation among people as to exactly how fast they can safely drive a vehicle. Once we've agreed there *is* such a thing as a harmfully-fast speed and that we should forbid speeds that are too fast, the variations of driver skill matter much less than picking one speed limit for a zone, telling everyone they must stick to it, and ending pointless arguments about where exactly to put the threshold. -- \ “I have never imputed to Nature a purpose or a goal, or | `\ anything that could be understood as anthropomorphic.” —Albert | _o__) Einstein, unsent letter, 1955 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list