On 17/04/2016 04:44, Rustom Mody wrote:
On Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 10:22:10 PM UTC+5:30, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
It comes with the maxim that one function must be visible at once on the
screen.
Thats a strange self-contradiction. I wrote this:
http://blog.languager.org/2012/10/layout-imperative-in-functional.html
to make the case against PEP8 style line length strictures.
Which has the SAME code formatted in two styles:
-- < 80 cols, 48 lines
-- 115 cols 37 lines
Clearly the 115 cols is MORE fittable in a page than the 80 cols
[Though my argument for that is based on other structural/semantic principles]
Um, that's a different language, or does PEP8 apply to Haskell too?
Haskell has a style that likes to be written horizontally (rather than
have statements one after another - /on separate lines/ - as in
imperative code).
I also have trouble regarding that code as a single function, as it
implements (AFAICS) an entire lexer. It resembles data more than
anything else, and data presumably is allowed to be scrolled. Otherwise
things would be very restrictive!
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