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And yet, Google's Objective-C style guide (adopted by many) is uncompromising in its 80-character line length:

http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/objcguide....

Utter BS. "... We realize that Objective C is a verbose language and in some cases it may be more readable to extend slightly beyond 80 columns, but this should definitely be the exception and not commonplace"

Edit: One single attribution that crosses the 80 columns rule (4 levels of indentation - 4 spaces each)

placeHolderLabel.lineBreakMode = UILineBreakModeWordWrap;

The person who wrote that is obviously not fluent in Obj-C and even says the rule is 'controversial'.

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