Rules are there to be broken. I stick to 80 chars 99% of the time because long lines are more difficult to read. But if a line ended up being 84 characters wi

Rules are there to be broken. I stick to 80 chars 99% of the time because long lines are more difficult to read. But if a line ended up being 84 characters wide I wouldn't go replacing variable names or hacking a single function call onto multiple lines to fix it. No one has died yet :-)