But no, 80-column terminals in 2020 isn't “reasonable” any more

Re:But no, 80-column terminals in 2020 isn't “reasonable” an... by rmrfstar on Saturday May 30, 2020 @07:32AM (#23360388)

> If your average line of code is wider than 80 characters, it's likely you have some other, bigger coding style problems

In math-heavy stuff, lines tend to be longer. You are usually trying to convert one line of math into one line of code. I myself shoot for 160 character columns.

See, e.g. [1].

[1] https://docs.fast.ai/dev/style.html

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Re:But no, 80-column terminals in 2020 isn't “reasonable” an... by ogre_codes on Saturday May 30, 2020 @04:45PM (#23364542)

I agree, math is a perfect example where code is more clear to have a single long statement on one line. I am a bit skeptical that you have a big codebase with math on more than a quarter of the lines of code though. Most likely there are a lot of shorter lines between your formulas which is exactly my point here.

When long lines improve readability/ clarity you should have the ability to use them.

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