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Roboprog on July 5, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Treating JavaScript like a 30 year old language

Almost forgot: if you need more than 80 columns, your routine is probably too long. Indicated by deep nesting, and/or variable names that need to be more than one or two English words because the scope and intent of the variables is not obvious.

ThePherocity on July 6, 2012 [–]

You don't write in Objective-C for an Apple then, eh?

Roboprog on July 10, 2012 | [–]

Not much, no. (for a few weeks, 2 years ago, so literally, some, but not bloody much)

Can the args to messages not be put on a continuation line?

ThePherocity on July 14, 2012 | | [–]

Yea, they can, but some of the names are overly verbose.

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