80 chars per line is great

Re:80 chars per line is great by ak217 on Monday March 25, 2013 @11:57AM (#5437689)

I've renamed variables to avoid splitting a line on several occasions

enforcing a common style

I've seen people here for 6+ months still fighting this

Or you could, you know, just treat each other as adult, responsible individuals.

Hint: rules for the sake of uniformity don't "defuse boneheadedness". They just suppress individuals, and eventually either drive them out or tame creativity, initiative, and responsibility out of them.

I mean, come on, you say that yourself! So just acknowledge that that's what you're doing. There are processes for making better software. These kinds of style guidelines are not among them.

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Re:80 chars per line is great by fusiongyro on Monday March 25, 2013 @12:39PM (#5437951)

I am unmoved by this argument. Forcing E.E. Cummings to use proper spelling and punctuation would certainly have had a detrimental effect on his poetry. The other couple billion English speakers benefit from consistency the other 99.9999% of the time. If you can't find non-syntactic ways to express your programming brilliance, creativity, initiative and responsibility, then I doubt you have all that much in the first place.

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Re:80 chars per line is great by thangalin on Monday March 25, 2013 @12:55PM (#5438045)

For what it's worth, E. E. Cummings most often wrote his name with proper capitalization.

http://www.gvsu.edu/english/cummings/caps.htm

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Re:80 chars per line is great by fusiongyro on Monday March 25, 2013 @12:56PM (#5438055)

Thanks, fixed.

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