80 is too short nowadays. I'd prefer at least 100, but 120 would be even better!
Regards,
Jakob
2011/12/12 Shane Bryzak <sbry...@gmail.com>:
> Looks like the consensus is 4 spaces. One other thing to consider is the
> line width, in the olden days this was generally 80 characters, however on
> today's big monitors 100 or even 120 is more typical. Does anyone have any
> preference here?
>
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 10:54 PM, Mark Struberg <strub...@yahoo.de> wrote:
>
>> True, indent size is also important.
>>
>> I'm pretty much used to 4.
>>
>> Indenting by 3 spaces feels a bit flabby ;)
>>
>> LieGrue,
>> strub
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> >________________________________
>> > From: Shane Bryzak <sbry...@gmail.com>
>> >To: deltaspike-dev@incubator.apache.org; Mark Struberg <strub...@yahoo.de
>> >
>> >Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 1:30 PM
>> >Subject: Re: basic decisions - coding conventions
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 9:37 PM, Mark Struberg <strub...@yahoo.de> wrote:
>> >
>> >Hi!
>> >>
>> >>I'm a fan of a pretty tight coding convention observation even at build
>> time.
>> >>
>> >>What we usually have (in owb and myfaces) is an own 'buildtools' project
>> which contains the checkstyle rules as own artifact.
>> >>This will then be used in the deltaspike-parent pom as dependency of the
>> maven-checkstyle-plugin. I'll set this up, no worries, easy stuff.
>> >>
>> >>The more important thing is to decide _which_ coding conventions we like
>> to follow at all?
>> >>
>> >>I have the following suggestions:
>> >>
>> >>1.) no tabs, only spaces!
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> >+1, tabs suck
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >>2.) bracelets on new line? Actually I don't care about
>> >>> if()
>> >>> {
>> >>> dings();
>> >>> }
>> >>or
>> >>
>> >>> if() {
>> >>> dings();
>> >>> }
>> >>but we should only use one stile throughout the whole code.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >I don't mind either way here, comfortable with either as long as we pick
>> one and are consistent with it.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >>3.) force bracelets
>> >>
>> >> no
>> >>
>> >>> if()
>> >>
>> >>> dosomething;
>> >>
>> >>without bracelets. Instead force:
>> >>> if()
>> >>> {
>> >>
>> >>> dosomething;
>> >>> }
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> >+1
>> >
>> >
>> >>I'm sure there is a bit more, thus please add the rules which are
>> important for you.
>> >>(PS: once we found a final solution we should move this into our wiki +
>> provide Eclipse and Idea checkstyle rules.
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >One thing to decide is indent size. Currently in Seam we use 4 spaces,
>> as we've recently adopted the JBoss coding standards. Personally, I think
>> this is a little too much, previously we had 3 spaces (Gavin's preference)
>> which I thought was better.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >>
>> >>LieGrue,
>> >>strub
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
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