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On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 10:21 AM, R. David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> wrote:
> I'm guessing it's short enough you can say you tried, but long+1 :)
\> enough to annoy traditionalists anyway.
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\> I'm annoyed already. �:-)
+1 :)
I recently gave up and reset default auto-wrap margin to 120 locally. �This change had little effect on code because most line breaks in code are inserted manually anyways. � However, docstrings are beginning to suffer. �The "short description" line is not that short anymore and multi-paragraph prose filled between 4- and 120-characters margin is hard to read.
I will start experimenting with 100-char limit, but I think it is still too wide for auto-wrapped text. � Maybe we should have a stronger recommendation to keep 80-char limit for docstrings and other embedded text. � It is OK to have an occasional long line in code, �but readability suffers when you have every line close to 100 chars.
Another observation is that long lines in code are usually heavily indented. �This makes them still readable because non-white characters still fit within the field of view. � Again, this is not the case for docstrings, comments or other embedded �prose.