Rob van Maris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For example I think the standard java code convention is > > limiting the code to 80 collumns which I think is silly in > > these moderns times. 180 would be more realistic. > > I don't agree. I favour standards in general, so I prefer to stick with > the Sun guidelines, which is the de facto standard, rather than having > our own derivative.
The sun java conventions only talk about 'avoid lines longer then 80 chars' which does not sound as an absolute rule. If 'avoiding' means 10 lines of meaningless code, (doing everything to spare a char) I'd say it is unavoidable to make a few lines longer :-) And by the way, a coding standard stating that you should indent with 4 spaces and that a tab should equal 8 spaces can hardly be taken completely seriously.. (I think mmbase coding stanards interpret this now as 'don't use tabs, because you'll probably would do it wrong anyay', which makes much more sense..). Michiel -- Michiel Meeuwissen Mediapark C101 Hilversum +31 (0)35 6772979 nl_NL eo_XX en_US mihxil' [] ()
