Re:80 chars per line is great
by nmcfarl on Monday March 25, 2013 @10:51AM
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Yeah - I was thinking about a Java codebase I was looking at a while back that had ultra verbose variable names like "BackupCopyOfLedgerUsedInWorstCaseScenarioProjections" You couldn’t even do a simple addition in 80 characters.
This limitation seems fairly language specific, and has a lot of side effects for the rest of your style guide.
This limitation seems fairly language specific, and has a lot of side effects for the rest of your style guide.