From: David R. <dre...@gm...> - 2010-10-22 18:59:51
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Sorry for chipping in but 80 chars were ok in an earlier age of three-letter method names and one-char variables. Nowadays going over 80 char lines with things like "throw new MyCoolIllegalArgumentException("String is not a valid parametewr type for method SomeClass.someIntTakinMethod(int)", e) *is not* a matter of indentation. IOW, do as you like with coding standard but don't come to the developper saying is his fault for adopting a bad indentation style :-) The book wideness argument is a strong one thoug. Anyway 80 chars is pretty narrow on my 120 dpi display. Surely my brain could easily take (and keep) some more context at once ;-) - Saludos / Kind regards, David Requena -----Original Message----- From: Marcelo Vanzin <va...@us...> Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 11:27:56 To: jEdit-devel List<jed...@li...> Subject: Re: [ jEdit-devel ] jEdit coding style On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 8:06 AM, Matthieu Casanova <cho...@gm...> wrote: > In the opposite my lines are 210 chars width and I don't like very > much lines that are hard wrapped. Count my vote against moving away from 80 characters. It has nothing to do with screen size. It has to do with how much context you can generally keep in your brain, and how much you can see without having to move your head. 80 characters provide a good balance in that regard. You know, there's a reason why books are just so wide. Also, if your code is nested in such a way that it would need more than 80 characters, I'll say you're doing it wrong. -- Marcelo Vanzin mmv...@gm... "Life's too short to drink cheap beer." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev -- ----------------------------------------------- jEdit Developers' List jEd...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jedit-devel |