From: Travis Smith <zultan.durin@...>
Date: 2005-03-23T11:44:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Any guides for good coding in Ruby?

On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 09:11:59 +0900, Nikolai Weibull
<mailing-lists.ruby-talk@rawuncut.elitemail.org> wrote:
> * James Edward Gray II (Mar 22, 2005 23:50):
> Seriously, though, the 80 character boundary is a thing of the past.
> Terminals (not to mention emulators) can be made wider, 132 being a good
> "standard" setting, so it's not even about backwards compatibility
> anymore.  I find that I can write code the way I want it if I'm not
> constrained to 80 characters per line.  (I only switched to a
> 132-character-wide terminal about 3 months ago, though, so I may change
> my mind yet again.),

I disagree. I use 80 character width for everything. I have three
xterms spanned across my screen - all 80 characters wide. My IDEs have
the size of the window limited to 80 characters wide. It's the perfect
size. If a line goes too far then I know it's too complicated (expect
strings, string often span lines) or I'm writing in Java. I think Java
kills the 80 characters wides... That's another story though.

I think everyone who doesn't use 80 characters (or less) should be
shot. But just in the foot, so they'll learn the error of their ways.
:)

-- 
~Travis