Re: Code formatting

[Jeremy Arnold]

Unfortunately, laptops don't have quite the same high-res displays as 
desktop systems, and even on my desktop I find that with the usual 
Eclipse views my code window ends up being around 80 columns anyway.  
That said, I'm happy to bump it up to 120....higher than that seems to 
be a bit much to me.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Can we revisit the rule about 80 column width?  Who here is  doing development in a 640x480 environment?  I find the waste of vertical space by something like this annoying:

setMethods.add(
                   objectClass.getMethod(
                       "set" + propertyNames[i],
                       new Class[] { propertyClasses[i] }));
80 seems draconian, even for 5 year old monitors.  I use 160 generally, and I have no trouble 
seeing an entire line (I use 1600x1200 display size).  Something between these two probably 
constitutes a happy medium for all of us that conserves both vertical and horizontal space.

What do people say?  Who out there needs an 80 column max?  Can people go to 120 or 
higher?

-Mike
 



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