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Author barry
Recipients barry, gvanrossum, lemburg, michael.foord, ncoghlan, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka, terry.reedy
Date 2013-07-29.21:30:33
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On Jul 28, 2013, at 04:59 AM, Raymond Hettinger wrote:

>- Regarding line length, I think it is reasonable to mention that many
>organizations are settling on 100 as a compromise.  On newer laptops you
>can still fit two terminal windows (with a reasonable font size) side by
>side
>
>+1 I've seen too many atrocities committed by people trying to scrunch code
>into 80 columns (weird line splits, over-abbreviated variable names, etc).

That's unfortunately.  "Weird" is almost never needed.  Long lines are a code
smell IMHO.
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