On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]> wrote: > For example, method signatures with a lot of parameters tend to grow > long quickly, but adding a line continuation thoroughly screws up the > indentation (just think about it - your method signature is a mix of > indent X and X+2, but the content is all X+1. That really looks weird. > I tend to include a blank line just to make it a bit less jarring, but > the problem doesn't go away), and I very very rarely need to read the > whole thing when I'm reading through code. If I really do need to read > the whole thing, I'll gladly horizontally scroll (with the keyboard, > of course).
Amusingly, I think this suffers from bad example syndrome. Having line breaks in method signatures can help with several things, including merge conflicts. IDEA defaults the indentation of the parameters to be one higher than what the method body would be, so maybe I'm breaking another tradition. Quickly rereading before I hit send. I'll agree that it could be "weird." I just think there is a chance it has more benefits than familiarity. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
