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I try to keep my Clojure code under 80 characters (so that I can have three editors comfortably side by side at my preferred font size) and keeping lines short is more than just where to wrap or other visual-only things. Usually when I have a long line, it makes me reconsider the structure of the code and I refactor it into something else. Most of the time, the new structure not only has shorter lines, but is simpler too, so its a double win. This isn’t always a task that the tools could do for mem, though, as it sometimes rewuires rethinking what I’m trying to accomplish.


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