On Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:12:19 GMT, Damon Nguyen <[email protected]> wrote:
>> The main reason for the 80 characters limit is to eliminate need to >> horizontally scroll sources - especially when viewing git history and diffs >> in terminals. Once it was a part of the Sun (and then Oracle) Java Coding >> Conventions (JCC 4.1 to be precise). But that document is outdated and no >> longer maintained so i do not think we need to enforce it - at least when >> the line length is in reasonable. Personally i would not mind if the string >> (especially comments with JavaDoc formatting) if shorter than 120 chars. >> Longer than 120 is still very hard to read even on the modern high >> resolution displays - the side by side comparison of the diff with such a >> line would span across more than 240 characters and that is just hard to >> read which makes it easier to miss an unintended diff beyond the horizontal >> border. > > @azuev-java I updated the few lines that seemed too long (mostly due to > having multiple `@code` or `@value` links in it. Appreciate if you could take > another look. Much better, thank you! ------------- PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26969#discussion_r2478752728
