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Purely from a user perspective, I don't want to see the script broken up. I am aware of the technical limitations introduced by merlyn -- the point is well-taken. But technicality aside, I think there is an element of keeping the scripts so that they look the way the author intended. One has to assume a certain level of facility of course, that the authors of code know where to put newlines and where to leave longer lines alone. My main concern though, is that everyone has their own unique style -- to my mind, adding newlines merely to make a script fit on a screen is kind of like correcting e.e. cummings' punctuation.

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RE: RE: Wrapping long code tags, probably a bad idea
by mdillon (Priest) on May 29, 2000 at 23:05 UTC
    i'm already used to editing my scripts for character cell displays, since i work over SSH a lot. so, for me, keeping lines at a manageable length does not entail any additional cognitive effort.
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      Same here, maybe that's why I find it so anoying!

      At any rate, the node I mentioned above was followed by a "Don't you use line breaks?" question, which I tought was in good order. Not only because of perlmonks aesthetics, but because the coding did look rather odd.

      I'm one of those guys that will do:
      my $foo       = 'foo';
my $foobar    = 'foobar';
my $foobarbaz = 'foobar and baz';

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      instead of
      my $foo = 'foo';
my $foobar = 'foobar';
my $foobarbaz = 'foobar and baz';

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      the contrary can be applied to my apartment tho. My living room looks much more like: 
      my $foo = 'foo'; my $foobar = $foo.'bar';
my $foobarbaz = $foo.'bar'.' and baz';

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      :o)
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