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From: Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2025 13:49:05 -0700
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The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> On 03/03/2025 19:19, rbowman wrote:
>> On Mon, 3 Mar 2025 15:24:04 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> 
>>> On 03/03/2025 10:05, Niklas Karlsson wrote:
>>>> Some would probably get on your case for being profligate with vertical
>>>> space... but honestly, it doesn't much matter with the kind of screen
>>>> real estate we have these days. I do agree that your style has
>>>> readability benefits.
>>> 
>>> Yes. Back in the day when I debugged with 80 column dot matrix
>>> printouts, it got messy.
>>> To day with collapsible blocks on a gui it's a lot easier
>> 
>> I still prefer statements that don't exceed 80 columns.
> So do I but it gets unavoidable when toy are passing sixty plus 
> variables to a function.
> Fortunately  you can explicitly  line wrap and the compiler don't care.
> 

I would usually do one argument per line at that point.

-- 
Pete