checkstyle.properties specifies 120, which is a reasonable length. Stephen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Gregory" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Jakarta Commons Developers List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 11:24 PM Subject: [Lang] Source code line length
> Hello All, > > This discussion applies to all of Commons but source code formatting is a > religious issue for some so I am happy to only address this at the [Lang] > level. > > For our regular development (at work), we all use Eclipse's formatter with > the same parameters (line length is the only factory default we changed, > 145). > > Sun's conventions document advises to "Avoid lines longer than 80 > characters, since they're not handled well by many terminals and tools." > > Apache's guidelines points to Sun's while asking contributors to "Please > respect the style of the orginal[sic] file. Make sure that your additions > fit in with that style". > > Lang Line length seems to be varied. I am happy to follow whatever > convention but I would like to plug in a number (80 or >) if there is some > unspoken convention here. > > Thanks, > Gary > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
