[Info-vax] [HS] Writer advice requested

[Bob Koehler]

In article <4cdb19a9$0$2125$c3e8da3$9deca2c3 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
> 
> But for coding, there are times when you like to indent your code as per
> bested levels of "if", loops or whatever, and there are portions of a
> program which will exceed that 80 columns. But it makes it more readable
> on screen to have it exceed 80 columns than having to break individual
> "commands" into multiple lines. (especially if you have strings in there
> which some languages don't like to be broken up into multiple lines).

   If you submitted code that deeply indented in a code review in my
   shop, I'd insist that it be broken into multiple functions, or
   redesigned.