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by Cpoll 3367 days ago
> 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.