I think, sometimes it is better to violate those 2 rules because:
- modern wide-screens have much horizontal, but less vertical space, especially
on labtops
- line break for only one/few word(s) looks ugly, disturbs read-flow
- it's no problem, if e.g. 1 of 50 lines must be scrolled a little horizontally, but it's a big
problem if I have to vertically scroll twice often, when too much lines are "wasted". Comparing and
understanding code then becomes a nightmare.
Referring to your example, on the other hand, continuation lines should be indented 8 rather than 4
spaces to separate them from logical nesting. Especially your last line looks like less nested than
the three before, which IMHO is a clear mistake.
-Ulf
Am 25.04.2013 22:57, schrieb Paul Benedict:
Henry,
I believe the coding standards require curly braces for any if-statement
and for-loop.
Also the return statements exceed the 80 character limit. It would be nice
to have them formatted across several lines like the following because it's
difficult to read going straight across:
return StreamSupport.intStream(() ->
Spliterators.spliterator(
new CharIterator(),
length(),
Spliterator.ORDERED),
Spliterator.SUBSIZED | Spliterator.SIZED | Spliterator.ORDERED);
Paul
