[PLUG] 80 characters

Jason Van Cleve jason at vancleve.com
Thu Nov 6 13:00:02 UTC 2003


Thus spoke Aaron Burt, on Thu, 6 Nov 2003 11:20:17 -0800 (PST):

> Hrm.  The problem is that when a person has their line breaks set at 80 or
> a little
> over, most readers wrap the long lines so they fit on the screen, then,
> quite
> properly, obey the newline at the end of the just-wrapped line.  Just one
> of those
> corner-cases that occur in any software system.

So, are you wrapping your lines at 83+ columns here to demonstrate your point?  (Yes, I failed to rewrap them on purpose of demonstrating mine.)

--Jason




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