Re:Python Is Eating the World
by KirinDave on Monday August 12, 2019 @12:53AM
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This is about as sensible to me as saying it is a good idea because most trains are longer than they are wide. Who cares about those things, we use computers that nearly all have 4:3 or 16:~10 displays (or wider), and many of use use more than one of them.
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Display size has nothing to do with it. Long lines are hard to read:
I obviously don't agree, but it is worth noting that comparing typographic conventions for English with typographic conventions for code is not a very good idea, to me. Especially when we're discussing a language with semantically active whitespace.
A 100 character line might only see 15-70 characters of active use.
Re:Python Is Eating the World
by CameronNemo on Monday August 12, 2019 @03:17AM
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While this is a fair point, pylint bumps the limit to something like 100 characters, and you can split deeply nested logic into separate functions with ease.
Re:Python Is Eating the World
by mirekrusin on Monday August 12, 2019 @03:18AM
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HN has ~200 char lines and I find it easy to read long bikeshed arguments.
Are you implying short and wide trains would be sensible? I like using a wide screen for programming, but prefer code formatted to 80 chars. That allows me to have two vertical windows of code open side by side. It also makes it easier to use things like a graphical diff to merge code.