On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 1:46 PM, Jeff Walden <jwalden+...@mit.edu> wrote:
> JS widely uses 99ch line lengths (allows a line-wrap character in 100ch > terminals). Given C++ symbol names, especially with templates, get pretty > long, it's a huge loss to revert to 80ch because of how much has to wrap. > Is there a reason Mozilla couldn't increase to 99 or 100? Viewability > on-screen seems pretty weak in this era of generally large screens. > Printability's a better argument, but it's unclear to me files are printed > often enough for this to matter. I do it one or two times a year, myself, > these days. > I'm sympathetic and I don't recall any arguments against doing this. I don't think most JS hackers care for abuse of Hungarian notation for > scope-based (or const) naming. Every member/argument having a capital > letter in it surely makes typing slower. And extra noise in every name but > locals seems worse for new-contributor readability. Personally this > doesn't bother me much (although "aCx" will always be painful compared to > "cx" as two no-cap letters, I'm sure), but others are much more bothered. > I personally hate this style rule. I've argued against it vociferously. I lost. In the absence of a new killer argument against it, I'm resigned to living with it. If I can, you can too :-). JS people have long worked without bracing single-liners. With any style > guide's indentation requirements, they're a visually redundant waste of > space. Any style checker that checks both indentation and bracing (of > course we'll have one, right?), will warn twice for the error single-line > bracing prevents. I think most of us would discount the value of being > able to add more to a single-line block without changing the condition > line. So I'm pretty sure we're all dim on this one. > I actually prefer the bracing rule here. Ignoring that, it seems to me the downside of consistently bracing is small since I bet you often insert a blank line after the statement anyway. Thanks for bringing these up. Rob -- Jtehsauts tshaei dS,o n" Wohfy Mdaon yhoaus eanuttehrotraiitny eovni le atrhtohu gthot sf oirng iyvoeu rs ihnesa.r"t sS?o Whhei csha iids teoa stiheer :p atroa lsyazye,d 'mYaonu,r "sGients uapr,e tfaokreg iyvoeunr, 'm aotr atnod sgaoy ,h o'mGee.t" uTph eann dt hwea lmka'n? gBoutt uIp waanndt wyeonut thoo mken.o w _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
