On Monday, January 6, 2014 6:46:49 PM UTC-6, Jeff Walden wrote: > I'm writing this list, so obviously I'm choosing what I think is on it. But > I think there's rough consensus on most of these among JS hackers. > > > > 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. 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. > > > > 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. > > > > Skimming the rest of the current list, I don't see anything that would > obviously, definitely, be on the short list of complaints for SpiderMonkey > hackers. Other SpiderMonkey hackers should feel free to point out anything > else they see, that I might have missed. > > > > Jeff francis shields
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