On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 9:12 AM, Pat Ferrel <[email protected]> wrote:
> Unless someone has a strong counter reason I’m leaning towards using line > length limits when convenient and not when I judge them less readable. I do > plan to follow several other Scala style guidelines that I don’t especially > like, because there is merit to the consistency argument. > My feeling is that consistent style is good except when it isn't. On the other hand, it is good more often than most people writing code think because it is the readers, not the writers who matter most. No matter what the writer things readability means, the naive reader may have different opinions. Another thing about style is that it tends to generate heatful discussions that have no good conclusions. My feeling over the years has thus tended to prefer to just go with the flow because having any kind of flow is better than stopping that flow to argue about style. Probably what we should do is continue to ding on anything that is well outside of established styles (which are not really fully defined for scala just yet given that big projects like spark are idiosyncratic). Then if the author feels strong and has an argument better than laziness, we can go with the author.
