80 chars per line is great

Re:80 chars per line is great by ajanuary on Monday March 25, 2013 @10:55AM (#5437272)

    This isn't about the indentation.

From TFA:

    Also, having the mandatory indentation whitespace increase the line width is a good visual way of minimising the nested loops in your code and suggesting, in a subtle way, to refactor anything that is indented more than about four times.

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Re:80 chars per line is great by scarmig on Monday March 25, 2013 @12:51PM (#5438022)

Your line from TFA is 241 characters, making it a pain to read....

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Re:80 chars per line is great by GhotiFish on Monday March 25, 2013 @11:08AM (#5437353)

yah, but I think the author is arguing side benefits.

to be fair, so am I.

The author was asserting 80 character line width was easier to read.

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