The point of printing and browsing code is that it is easier and nicer than to read it on a screen (you'll have a portable with you at the cafe anyway to search, annotate, etc.) If you get lots of broken lines, it isn't readable.
Point was, you lose a capability with long lines -- a nice way to go over code. This is important for many of us.
Edit: Point jedsmith, write it off as grumpy-old-man syndrome. Sigh, I just can't get that this isn't understood by everyone, anymore.
Let me first not that printing was a little sub point.
Second, in what you quote from: easier and nicer than to read it on a screen.
So your argument seems to be that it is equally nice to read fewer lines of paper in a smaller font. Huh? Also, my eyes can't handle 4 pages on a page any more -- and your eyes won't be able to do that after 40, either.
The point of printing and browsing code is that it is easier and nicer than to read it on a screen (you'll have a portable with you at the cafe anyway to search, annotate, etc.) If you get lots of broken lines, it isn't readable.
Point was, you lose a capability with long lines -- a nice way to go over code. This is important for many of us.
Edit: Point jedsmith, write it off as grumpy-old-man syndrome. Sigh, I just can't get that this isn't understood by everyone, anymore.