[Python-ideas] 80 character line width vs. something wider

[Georg Brandl]

spir schrieb:
> Le Wed, 20 May 2009 18:02:54 -0700, "Raymond Hettinger"
> <python at rcn.com> s'exprima ainsi:
> 
>>> If the character limit didn't remain relevant, we'd remove it,
> 
> (to Steven) We definitely don't live in the same world ;-) In mine, any
> purely legacy trait change raises religious wars. People fighting against
> change _always_ find "good" reasons. That seems to be part of human nature
> (in the world I live in).

And who determines if it *is* a purely legacy trait?  Don't you think that
these reasons may be valid when it isn't?

Georg

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Thus spake the Lord: Thou shalt indent with four spaces. No more, no less.
Four shall be the number of spaces thou shalt indent, and the number of thy
indenting shall be four. Eight shalt thou not indent, nor either indent thou
two, excepting that thou then proceed to four. Tabs are right out.