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80 character lines

Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 1:14 am
by Jonathan
I really really hate too many extra new lines. The occasional new line scattered throughout a file breaks up logical chunks well. Putting everything on its own damn line drives me batty.

So batty, in fact, I am starting to think I hate 80 character line because they force new lines. Don't get me wrong: if there's a multi-arg boolean test I'll put each on its own line. But except for breaking on different boolean operators, I just don't do it.

Re: 80 character lines

Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 2:17 pm
by Peijen
Dwindlehop wrote:I really really hate too many extra new lines. The occasional new line scattered throughout a file breaks up logical chunks well. Putting everything on its own damn line drives me batty.

So batty, in fact, I am starting to think I hate 80 character line because they force new lines. Don't get me wrong: if there's a multi-arg boolean test I'll put each on its own line. But except for breaking on different boolean operators, I just don't do it.
I think four years ago I posted the same question, I try to keep things under 120 characters per line.