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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.