+1.

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 10:17 PM, Laxman <lakshman...@huawei.com> wrote:

> Hi Devs,
>
> How about raising the "max line width" from 80 (to 100 or 120)?
> IMO, 80 characters length is too low & it makes the code bit ugly.
>
> Example:
>    long timstamp = conf.getLong(TIMESTAMP_CONF_KEY,
> System.currentTimeMillis());
>
> Above code snippet after formatting, it turned to
>
>    long timstamp = conf
>        .getLong(TIMESTAMP_CONF_KEY, System.currentTimeMillis());
>
> Please respond with your opinion considering the following points.
>
> - Sun Java coding standards drafted in 1999
> - Terminals(Monitors) we are using now are very wider and 80 characters is
> not a valid limit anymore.
> - As per Ted, Google raised this limit
> [https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-5564]
>
> Note: We don't need to reformat entire codebase. My proposal is to apply
> these standards to new code getting commited.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Laxman
>
>
>

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