On 03/27/2015 04:42 PM, Jan De Mooij wrote:
On the other hand, going from 99 columns to 80 will also be annoying in a bunch of places.
I don't think that's necessary. Let's relax our 80-column rule in Gecko instead. We can keep it as a recommendation, but allow longer lines when it improves readability of the code. In Layout, where I spend most of my time, we tend to prefer ReallyLongAndDescriptiveNames which often leads to weird line- breaking and indentation to make the code fit in 80 columns. This makes the code hard to read and maintain, not to mention the *significant* waste of time for the writer to try to squeeze it down to fit. I have to admit that I have sometimes chosen shorter and less descriptive names just to avoid the problem and I've seen others do the same (most recently today actually when reviewing some code). So let's change the project-wide coding rules instead to allow 99 columns as the hard limit, but keep 80 columns as the recommended (soft) limit. /Mats _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
