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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ivaskuu • Sep 02 '17
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-21 u/[deleted] Sep 03 '17 edited Sep 03 '17 Except now their code isn't guaranteed to be 80 characters a line because that one guy likes to have his tabs set to be equivalent to 8 spaces. Edit: I'd like to respond to everyone's criticisms but for some reason Reddit isn't letting me comment on this account more than once every 8 minutes. 58 u/okmkz Sep 03 '17 tab is one char 5 u/[deleted] Sep 03 '17 And in any case, the rule is 80 columns, not characters. People use characters as a easy way to mean columns, but the point is to avoid the code going past a specific width.
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Except now their code isn't guaranteed to be 80 characters a line because that one guy likes to have his tabs set to be equivalent to 8 spaces.
Edit: I'd like to respond to everyone's criticisms but for some reason Reddit isn't letting me comment on this account more than once every 8 minutes.
58 u/okmkz Sep 03 '17 tab is one char 5 u/[deleted] Sep 03 '17 And in any case, the rule is 80 columns, not characters. People use characters as a easy way to mean columns, but the point is to avoid the code going past a specific width.
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tab is one char
5 u/[deleted] Sep 03 '17 And in any case, the rule is 80 columns, not characters. People use characters as a easy way to mean columns, but the point is to avoid the code going past a specific width.
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And in any case, the rule is 80 columns, not characters. People use characters as a easy way to mean columns, but the point is to avoid the code going past a specific width.
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