A desperate lunge for on-topic-ness

[Grant Edwards]

On 2012-10-18, Den <patentsvnc at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, October 17, 2012 11:06:43 PM UTC-7, Zero Piraeus wrote:
>
>> What are people's preferred strategies for dealing with lines that go
>> 
>> over 79 characters? A few I can think of off the bat:
>
> I personally just keep typing until my statement is finished.  This
> is my program, not PEP's.
>
> But I have to say I'm amused by the whole question, and others
> related to PEP8.  A quick aside, the width of our roads all go back
> to the width of a two horse rig.  The suggested maximum of 80
> characters goes back to teletype machines, and IBM cards, and
> character based terminals
>
> Should that really be the basis for a suggested style now?

You don't expect me to through my Heathkit H19 terminal in the trash,
do you?  :)

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