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It was thus said that the Great A. Pagaltzis once stated: > * Smylers <Smylers@xxxxxxx.xxx> [2006-06-20 00:20]: > > Also, I'm not that bothered how big indentation levels are, but > > I do care that source code lines don't exceed 80 characters: I > > want them to fit in a standard size terminal, to be readable in > > an e-mail message, to be able to run diff on code and not find > > the lines are so long that it takes a dedicated 'Where's > > Wally'[*0] watcher to spot where the actual differences are. > > I never understood this. > > I tried to follow the rule for a long time, but I found that when > a line is 200 characters long, you either did something wrong and > should break it up into a few separate steps, at which point the > matter solves itself. Or it really has to be 200 characters long, > in which case all attempts to fit it into 80 column lines are > contortions that serve no other purpose than to distract while > reading but particularly while writing. XSLT anyone? [1] There are quite a few lines I wrote in XSLT that exceed 200 characters (even if flush left, they would *still* be in excess of 200 characters). -spc (But once having written the XSLT files, it's now trivial to add pages and whole new subsections to my site ... ) [1] Self-inflicted hate. I thought it would be nice to store my website [2] as XML and use XSLT to convert it to HTML pages (mostly to autogenerate the nagivation links). A purely functional programming language that is *more* annoying than Perl, Lisp *and* Forth put together. [2] For those that might be interested: http://www.conman.org/There's stuff above here
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