[Tutor] Correct style of line break when chaining methods

[Richard Damon]

On 7/11/21 10:52 PM, dn via Tutor wrote:
>
> 0 bring back punch-cards!
>
> 1 I can't remember why "79", instead of the 80-column preceding
> 'standard' (which also followed punched cards, even when
> terminals/screens were capable of more than 24x80 - but back-then some
> languages mandated the use of the first columns and perhaps also the
> last). Perhaps the 80th column would be where the "\" line-continuation
> character fits?

The problem with 80 column lines was that some terminals on getting the
80th character would automatically do a new line, and then the following
new line from the code would give you a blank line.


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Richard Damon