[__david__]

Because one takes an extra line. For something that's effectively an error condition. There's so reason errors should take up so much vertical code space (which is at a premium even today, given how wide monitors are). This is one of my primary quibbles with golang, and why I will never give in to the community's slavish devotion to "go fmt @

[echlebek]

Yikes. Do you realize how useful it is to have a single consistent formatting for source code? It eliminates an entire class of arguments. Or do you enjoy arguing about tabs and spaces, and when to make newlines?

[nitrogen]

Try rotating your screen 90 degrees.

[chris_wot]

Do you know how weird that makes me look when I'm coding on my laptop at the airport?

[nitrogen]

No doubt it's quite weird, but I am of the opinion that hardware should serve the code and coder, not the other way around. Maybe use a portrait orientation tablet with a bt keyboard for travel. I think there could be a small market for laptops with a portrait mode, too.