Line wrapping

[Richard Gaskin]

stephen barncard wrote:

> It's better for one to do one's own wrapping.
> for instance
> 
> put field "myField" of cd "myCard" of stack "myStack" into field "myField2"
> of cd "nextCard" of stack "otherStack"
> 
> is a horrible jumble of garbage to the eyes, but
> 
>  put\
> 
>                   field "myField" \
> 
>                   of cd "myCard" \
> 
>                   of stack "myStack" \
> 
>                   into field "myField2" \
> 
>                   of cd "nextCard" \
> 
>                   of stack "otherStack"
> 
> 
> makes a lot of sense. Automatic wrapping can't do that. And it's easier to
> edit the references. And the compiler and indenter both are happy with it.
> And one can make the edit window narrower.

A good point, well illustrated.

Another benefit of adding line wraps manually is that it requires you to 
read the code at least well enough to find usful line breaks, sometimes 
a useful task when inheriting a code base.

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  Richard Gaskin
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