Sujet : Re: The joy of FORTRAN
De : tnp (at) *nospam* invalid.invalid (The Natural Philosopher)
Groupes : alt.folklore.computers comp.os.linux.miscDate : 04. Mar 2025, 10:14:34
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On 03/03/2025 21:05, Dan Cross wrote:
In article <vq52ov$1f9re$3@dont-email.me>,
The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
On 03/03/2025 19:19, rbowman wrote:
On Mon, 3 Mar 2025 15:24:04 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
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On 03/03/2025 10:05, Niklas Karlsson wrote:
Some would probably get on your case for being profligate with vertical
space... but honestly, it doesn't much matter with the kind of screen
real estate we have these days. I do agree that your style has
readability benefits.
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Yes. Back in the day when I debugged with 80 column dot matrix
printouts, it got messy.
To day with collapsible blocks on a gui it's a lot easier
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I still prefer statements that don't exceed 80 columns.
So do I but it gets unavoidable when toy are passing sixty plus
variables to a function.
If you're passing sixty plus variables to a function, then line
length limits are the least of your problems.
Not if you are injecting a set of 60 variables into a database, or a CSV file.
- Dan C.
-- "When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."Jonathan Swift.
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