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Very good

Until you have some code reviewer that thinks otherwise because of some "stupid reason" and you can't get around their hard heads.

One example, breaking a 81 char line because it goes over the limit and getting two shorter lines that are awful to read

So yeah I'll go for this when I'm working with reasonable people

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So, what do you do if you get a job with Java or iOS and 30++ char method names?

(Not being snarky, I would like to do some iOS development for fun but want lines under 78 chars, so it don't go over 80 with diff.)

I do iOS development in Swift and I generally don't exceed 80 characters. It was much harder to stay under 80 with Objective-C but still usually possible.

Everyone else on my team is in love with writing 120+ character lines, which makes me sad.

Sorry, it's just not practical to keep lines under 80 characters in some languages.

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