<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Ditto, screens can handle more than 80 chars per line nowadays (and it's even quite a few years since I've last seen a display with <1024 horizontal resolution). It's not a good idea to write a line from one end of a screen to the other on a 27'' display, but 80 chars is really insane.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">80 chars is useful to keep for readability of documentation, but not in code.</div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 24, 2016, at 11:25 AM, Patrick Smith via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">I’ve never quite understood why people are so strict about keeping to this?</div><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 24 Jun 2016, at 4:04 PM, Xiaodi Wu via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Not a practitioner of 80-character line limits, I take it?</span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">swift-evolution mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a><br class="">https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>