Re:Is the 80 character line limit still relevant? (2008)
by lcuff on Sunday November 24, 2024 @01:23AM
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44% shorter: is your claim that limiting line lengths to 80 or 100 characters is going to 'massively impinge' your productivity? That seems unlikely to me.
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Re:Is the 80 character line limit still relevant? (2008)
by lmm on Sunday November 24, 2024 @10:56PM
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It absolutely does. You might think it would just mean more lines, but that means your functions are longer so you have to break them up more, which means there's a hard limit on how big a coherent thing you can build. If you think it wouldn't matter, try limiting yourself to 60 or 40 character lines in a codebase and see how much it changes.