Re: Which code style do you prefer the most?

On Wed, 5 Mar 2025 23:46:13 +0000, bart wrote:

On 05/03/2025 22:02, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

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On Wed, 5 Mar 2025 16:40:51 +0000, bart wrote:
 

People are forgetting that in the days of 80-character hardware,
identifiers were often limited to 6 characters or even fewer.

 
COBOL allowed for 30 from the beginning, as I recall. And PL/I allowed
31.

 
So:
 
ADD AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA TO BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB
GIVING CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC.
 
? A tight fit for an 80-column card I think.

All those languages supported line continuation -- right in the middle of
an identifier or string literal or what-have-you, if necessary.