On 07/01/14 00:46, Jeff Walden 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 don't think most JS hackers care for abuse of Hungarian notation > for scope-based (or const) naming.
It would be very interesting for someone to see if any of the references Mike Hoye gives explain _which_ types of change lead to loss of productivity. For example, it could be that brace style does, and line length does not. Gerv _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
