Artificial limits to the line length is a mistake, it's a totally arbitrary value, and has horrendous knock on effects. People end up choosing bad variable names as otherwise the lines get too long. The intention was to produce readable code that can be viewed and understood, and if that is the intention, then line length should defer to readability, not the other way around.
Sense at last (Score:5, Interesting)
Artificial limits to the line length is a mistake, it's a totally arbitrary value, and has horrendous knock on effects. People end up choosing bad variable names as otherwise the lines get too long. The intention was to produce readable code that can be viewed and understood, and if that is the intention, then line length should defer to readability, not the other way around.
Re: (Score:5, Funny)
Yes! Give me a hard limit of 80 character lines and I'll show you a bunch of 3-letter variable names!
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Re:Sense at last (Score:2)
Re: Sense at last (Score:2)
Don't you mean 962 names?