+1

On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Christian Moen <[email protected]> wrote:
> +1
>
> Christian Moen
> http://www.atilika.com
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> On Feb 25, 2013, at 8:01 PM, Michael McCandless <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
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>> +1
>>
>> Mike McCandless
>>
>> http://blog.mikemccandless.com
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>>
>> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 5:59 AM, Uwe Schindler <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> +1 to raise the default of 80 to a minimum of 120. I really hate short 
>>> lines (and I find that the longer lines are much more readable) :-)
>>>
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>>> Uwe Schindler
>>> H.-H.-Meier-Allee 63, D-28213 Bremen
>>> http://www.thetaphi.de
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>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Toke Eskildsen [mailto:[email protected]]
>>>> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 11:39 AM
>>>> To: [email protected]
>>>> Subject: Line length in Lucene/Solr code
>>>>
>>>> According to https://wiki.apache.org/solr/HowToContribute, Sun's code style
>>>> conventions should be used when writing contributions for Lucene and Solr.
>>>> Said conventions state that lines in code should be 80 characters or less,
>>>> "since they're not handled well by many terminals and tools":
>>>> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/documentation/codecon
>>>> ventions-136091.html#313
>>>>
>>>> A quick random inspection of the Lucene/Solr code base tells me that this
>>>> recommendation is not followed: Out of 20 source files, only a single one
>>>> adhered to the 80 characters/line limit and that was StorageField, which 
>>>> is an
>>>> interface.
>>>>
>>>> I am all for a larger limit as I find that it makes Java code a lot more 
>>>> readable.
>>>> With current tools, Java code needs to be formatted using line breaks and
>>>> indents (as opposed to fully dynamic tool-specific re-flow of the code). 
>>>> That
>>>> formatting is dependent on a specific maximum line width to be consistent.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> With that in mind, I suggest that the code style recommendation is expanded
>>>> with the notion that a maximum of x characters/line should be used, where x
>>>> is something more than 80. Judging by a quick search, 120 chars seems to be
>>>> a common choice.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Toke Eskildsen
>>>>
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