Using WDSC and my 19 inch widescreen monitor I can probably see 200
characters with no problem, and if I maximize it across both my screens
that is 400 characters! I can also see about 80 lines at a time in my
editor, and if I could flip them to be taller instead of wider I would,
that way I could see many more lines.
I think having to constently worry about what column I'm in so that I make
sure I'm wrapping my code cuts down on coding efficiency. If I didn't
have to worry I could just hammer out code with my thought stream as I
would do in C++ or Java. But I have to constantly break my train of
thought to worry about this limitation. Maybe I'm just cranky today or
something, but it just frustrated me today to the point that I figured I'd
check with everyone who has been doing this much longer than me to see if
they feel the same way or know of a work around. Seems like there isn't a
work around.
Thanks
Bryce Martin
Programmer/Analyst I
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Re: More than 80 columns
Bryce Martin wrote:
Why is the '80' column limitation moot in free form? Do I not have my
editor set up properly? Is there a compile option that will allow me to
code out past column 80 in free form?
The 80 column limit doesn't go away ... I just think that free form RPG
eliminates the number of columns as a limiting factor in code.
Since your code is not constrained to specific columns (as you were with
old style RPG), you can wrap the code anywhere you want (within 80
columns, of course). This makes it quite reasonable to stay within the 80
columns (IMO). Personally, I think any line that gets close to column 75
needs to be wrapped anyways. Just for readability sake.
david
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