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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Which code style do you prefer the most?
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2025 06:17:05 -0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 27 Feb 2025 07:06:22 +0100, Janis Papanagnou wrote:

> Another reason (that I mentioned in a recent post) is that you restrict
> your working quality [by not restricting line length] (for details see
> that previous post).

Somebody is likely to bring this up sooner or later, so I might as well do 
so.

It is a fact that reading text is faster with shorter line lengths. This 
is why newspapers have more, narrower columns, as opposed to fewer, wider 
ones. So why do I have such long lines?

In fact, the actual nonblank parts of my lines of source are not often 
that long. So my choice of 100-column width is more to allow for levels of 
indentation, rather than to be filled with long lines of text.