[m-users.] Coding style

[Zetian Lin]

I'm used to emacs w/ line wrapping turned on so extra-long lines 
probably feel less like a serious problem to me than other people... 
that said, I try to control the line width to under 100 columns in my 
code. (I do make exceptions for certain cases e.g. in purely templating 
works where it's clear that you're just appending strings.)

Cheers,

Z Lin



On 1/21/26 14:15, Ralph Becket wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
>
> Happy New Year!
>
> About twenty years back, when I left Mercury to start in mainstream 
> commercial programming, monitors were a lot narrower.  There was a 
> strong feeling then that 80 columns was the Right and Proper Line 
> Length.  Nowadays, of course, monitors are much more generous.  While 
> I reject uncontrolled line lengths, 80 columns seems painfully tight.  
> (I think the Linux developers moved away from this some years ago).  
> That said, when (back) in Rome, do as the Romans do.  So: what's the 
> modern community position on this?
>
> Cheers,
> Ralph
>
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