Github user srowen commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/653#discussion_r12346795 --- Diff: docs/configuration.md --- @@ -26,10 +26,10 @@ application name), as well as arbitrary key-value pairs through the `set()` meth initialize an application as follows: {% highlight scala %} -val conf = new SparkConf() - .setMaster("local") - .setAppName("My application") - .set("spark.executor.memory", "1g") +val conf = new SparkConf(). + setMaster("local"). --- End diff -- Agree, although on re-reading I think the purpose of this snippet is to explain how one would invoke Spark programmatically via `SparkConf` (or else the whole thing should go away). It is something you might want to do in a Scala program, and might even want to pop into a Scala REPL (i.e. not `spark-shell`). I suggest leaving it; am I really off-base on that?
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