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Re: Changing line widths in the Emacs source code
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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Re: Changing line widths in the Emacs source code |
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Sun, 13 Sep 2020 19:29:07 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com> writes:
> And this is exactly why changing line length is a bad idea. Any code
> which requires overlong lines is usually clearer and more maintainable if
> rewritten to use shorter lines, and helper routines if needed.
We're definitely going in the opposite direction, though -- with the
introduction of lexical binding, the popular style is to create a bunch
of closures that refer to the surrounding environment, and that leads to
more nesting.
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- Re: Changing line widths in the Emacs source code, (continued)
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- Re: Changing line widths in the Emacs source code, Óscar Fuentes, 2020/09/13
- Re: Changing line widths in the Emacs source code, Stefan Monnier, 2020/09/13
- Re: Changing line widths in the Emacs source code, T.V Raman, 2020/09/13
- Re: Changing line widths in the Emacs source code, tomas, 2020/09/14
- Re: Changing line widths in the Emacs source code, Alan Third, 2020/09/14
- Re: Changing line widths in the Emacs source code, Stefan Kangas, 2020/09/15
Re: Changing line widths in the Emacs source code, Daniel Martín, 2020/09/13
Re: Changing line widths in the Emacs source code, Stefan Kangas, 2020/09/13
Re: Changing line widths in the Emacs source code, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/09/13
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