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Discussion on: Maximum line length in your code

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Replies for: Why stick to an arbitrary max length at all? Make lines as long as is natural for the code without having to horizontally scroll.

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Evaldas Buinauskas •

This usually comes from tools like GitHub or VSTS. These will enforce horizontal code scrolling on code comparison if lines are longer than {x} characters.