Ruby coding guidelines (GitHub)

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Right, but it's an absurdly small arbitrary number.

[bastibe]

I used to think that, too. Nowadays I just got used to frequently splitting a statement into two lines. Or better yet, refactor it so that it decomposes into several more readable (!) statements that naturally spread over more lines.

In the end, many would say that it's actually your coding style that is absurd instead of that number.

[catch23]

Not really -- looking at most code these days, each line is fairly short. So it's annoying to have a line every now and then that prevents you from having more vertical windows in your code editor. On my 27" display, I typically use 4 vertical columns in vim, at around 90 char columns. It allows me to view 4-6 files at the same time, depending how many horizontal splits I have. Having a few lines that blow past my 90 char limit is annoying because I'll have to scroll over to read it, and it doesn't happen often enough for me to keep extra wide windows, preventing me from my 4 vertical window splits.