[Info-vax] [HS] Writer advice requested

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 11/11/2010 8:14 AM, Bob Koehler wrote:
> 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.
>

Nice work if you can get it!  Most places don't want it done right, they 
want it done by next Tuesday!