Just a note that I don't think Pedro was suggesting the change for Python
or Scala.  How would folks feel about changing the limit for just C++?

On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 6:21 AM, Tianqi Chen <[email protected]>
wrote:

> An argument against such change would be the coding style standard is
> people already get used to it, and there is less benefit of making the
> change.
>
> PEP and Google C style suggest 80 chars as limit, I usually write with that
> in mind and try to break multiple arguments into multiple lines when such
> violation happens, and rarely sometimes have a 100 line code for code
> reason
>
> One potential benefit of fewer characters per line makes it easier to do
> split editing when you split your code into two screens (hey emacs and vim
> users)
>
> I am not in strong favor of either number of line limits but is comfortable
> with the current setting
>
>
> Tianqi
>
> On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 11:28 AM, Chris Olivier <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > Thank you for the excellent reply!
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 11:25 AM, Nan Zhu <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > well....max line length as 100 is adopted in many projects (nearly all
> > > projects I have been involved or used or looked at,
> > > spark/flink/bahir/atlas, etc. companies which using scala intensively
> > also
> > > sets it to 100 (e.g. netflix, you can check their atlas project))
> > >
> > > one of the reasons is that all these projects are all following
> > > https://github.com/databricks/scala-style-guide which was published in
> > the
> > > early days of when scala is becoming popular
> > >
> > > and the behind reason might be that considering the language
> > > characteristics of scala, a shorter line limit would be make it more
> > > readable, (http://docs.scala-lang.org/style/indentation.html#line-
> > wrapping
> > > ,
> > > the official guide even says 80 as the limit)
> > >
> > > Also note that, scala-packages has a scala-style plugin regulating
> coding
> > > style which does not apply limits for certain cases, e.g. import, and
> the
> > > developer can turn off style checking if you are doing something
> special
> > >
> > >
> > > BTW, considering monitor-relevant concern,
> > http://scalameta.org/scalafmt/
> > > tells that 100 is good enough even for a 30'' wide monitor
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 11:10 AM, Chris Olivier <[email protected]>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Why -1?
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 11:03 AM, Nan Zhu <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > -1 for scala part
> > > > >
> > > > > On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 9:48 AM, Marco de Abreu <
> > > > > [email protected]
> > > > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > +1
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Am 05.01.2018 5:49 nachm. schrieb "Chris Olivier" <
> > > > [email protected]
> > > > > >:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > +1
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 8:00 AM, Pedro Larroy <
> > > > > [email protected]
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > Hi
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Can we please increase the indent limit from 100 to 120? I find
> > 100
> > > > > > > too low for current standards and today's monitors. Default
> CLion
> > > > line
> > > > > > > limit is also 120.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I'm having to split some long templates and I wish we had a
> > longer
> > > > line
> > > > > > > limit.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Thanks a lot.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Pedro
> > > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>

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