PEP8 79 char max
Rhodri James
rhodri at wildebst.demon.co.uk
Mon Jul 29 20:41:14 EDT 2013
On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 01:11:18 +0100, Joshua Landau <joshua at landau.ws> wrote:
> On 30 July 2013 00:08, Rhodri James <rhodri at wildebst.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> I'm working on some shonky C code at the moment that inconsistent
>> indentation and very long lines. It is extremely annoying not to be
>> able to put the original code, my "translation" and sundry utilities
>> all side-by-side on the same screen (and it's not a particularly
>> small screen), and having to keep flipping between them slows me
>> down dramatically. Long lines have no effect on the speed of the
>> program, but they can have serious effects on the speed of the
>> programmer.
>
> Then just wrap it. This is a very automatable thing for editors. There
> might even be a clever hard-wrap somewhere. I just tried pyformat -- that
> works wonders.
I tried that at first, but it actually made matters worse. "Simple"
word-wrapping just broke the structural cues from indentation (which I'd
already had to instruct my editor to make at least somewhat consistent).
I couldn't just take in the code layout at a glance, I had to work at it.
--
Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses
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