[chirp_devel] Is FLAKE8 line length 80 still appropriate?

[Dan Smith]

> Linus Torvalds used to recommend 80 characters and tab-indentation in 
> the Linux kernel because he argued that if your code was getting 
> constrained to the right-hand edge (in his words "more than 3 levels of 
> indentation"), your functions were probably getting too complex and 
> should be split up:
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/CodingStyle?h=v3.19#n29
> 
> Python isn't C, but I think the same logic holds true: if your 
> functions/methods are so deeply nested that they're literally marching 
> off the right-hand margin of your editor, a re-factoring might be a good 
> idea.

Yep, this is how I feel about it. Python's forced indenting even helps to ensure you hit the right margin as complexity increases.

I'm not interested in changing this rule.

--Dan