Re:Controversial Programming Opinions (2012)
by layer8 on Friday December 04, 2020 @04:29PM
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I settled on 100 characters as the sweet spot, with an exception for trailing punctuation being allowed to go beyond (because you don’t want to wrap a line just because of some trailing punctuation).
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Re:Controversial Programming Opinions (2012)
by iandinwoodie on Saturday December 05, 2020 @12:01AM
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I remember hitting the punctuation dilemma with my self-imposed character limit. Putting the punctuation on the next line, looking at it displeased, moving it back, questioning the purpose of rules if they're not followed; racking my brain over the world's least consequential conundrum. Ultimately I decided to adhere to my limit, but to treat punctuation and the word that precedes it as a single unit to be wrapped together.