> In truth, longer lines would probably be fine, except that 99% of the time when your line is more than 80 characters long, there's a better way to do it with

> In truth, longer lines would probably be fine, except that 99% of the time when your line is more than 80 characters long, there's a better way to do it with shorter lines. myDescriptiveResultVariable = myDescriptiveMethod(myWordyVariable, myVerboseVariable); That's 87 characters.