The way switches are compiled is not-so-relevant to this point, because it is more about human perception of code flow than technical reasons. But I've stated it in other comments, the switch ban is really not my strongest take.
In the original paper, it refers very specifically to macros returning a boolean value which can be used in a if that can be used to exit the flow and return an error code, which is then taken care of by rule 7 (emit exceptions and let them bubble up).
That's also the understanding that I've had for a long time about the preprocessor rule and in fact I actually wrote a dual-axis section speaking about both transpiling and metaprogramming. However, I thought about metaprogramming in terms of harm. Yes you can do crazy stuff with it but it's so complicated that I never see anybody doing anything bad with it. The only use I see commonly is Django's models, forms and serializers which are actually awesome. I figured that C macros are easy and nasty while metaprogramming is usually hard but used sparringly and for good reasons.
Regarding the size, that looks reasonable as well. The JPL 60-lines feels right to me since most of my functions are much shorter anyways. Regarding the width, I guess there is some language-specific parameters to account for but the nice people behind blackdid some research and found that 88 is the best. Which is fine by me, it allows to sit two files side by side on a laptop screen at a readable font size. But honestly, as long as the numbers stay consistent project-wise, knock yourself out.
Those are interesting points, to reply in order:
switches are compiled is not-so-relevant to this point, because it is more about human perception of code flow than technical reasons. But I've stated it in other comments, theswitchban is really not my strongest take.ifthat can be used to exit the flow and return an error code, which is then taken care of by rule 7 (emit exceptions and let them bubble up).blackdid some research and found that 88 is the best. Which is fine by me, it allows to sit two files side by side on a laptop screen at a readable font size. But honestly, as long as the numbers stay consistent project-wise, knock yourself out.IMO, the ability to display two bits of code side by side is by far the most useful outcome of restricting line lengths.