79 chars or more?

[Roy Smith]

Of course source code is written in a monospaced typeface, which is a
little wider and consequently fewer characters per page.

There was a fling a while ago with typesetting code in proportional
spaced type. I think some of the "Effective C++" series from
Addison-Wesley did that. Yuck.

 

[Neil Cerutti]

There was a fling a while ago with typesetting code in
proportional spaced type. I think some of the "Effective C++"
series from Addison-Wesley did that. Yuck.

It's probably influenced by The C++ Programming Language.
Stroustrup likes it.

 

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In message

Saying that, if one intend to distribute its code, he should stick to 80
chars per line.

Why?

 

[Gregory Ewing]

There was a fling a while ago with typesetting code in proportional
spaced type. I think some of the "Effective C++" series from
Addison-Wesley did that. Yuck.

I don't think proportional spacing is necessarily a
problem, as long as a font is used that makes all
characters clearly distinguishible. Unfortunately,
most of the widely-used sans-serif proportional
fonts fail to do this.

 

[MRAB]

I don't think proportional spacing is necessarily a
problem, as long as a font is used that makes all
characters clearly distinguishible. Unfortunately,
most of the widely-used sans-serif proportional
fonts fail to do this.

I don't think proportional spacing is necessarily a problem, as long all
the characters are the same width.

 

[Jean-Michel Pichavant]

In message
<[email protected]>, Jean-Michel Pichavant
wrote:



Why?

Because some(many ?) people cannot deal with more than 80 chars,
otherwise this rule would be pointless.

JM

 

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

Because some(many ?) people cannot deal with more than 80 chars,
otherwise this rule would be pointless.

So you assume the rule cannot be pointless?