On 07/05/2015 09:41 AM, Emmanuel Lécharny wrote: > Le 05/07/15 01:36, Zheng, Kai a écrit : >> Hi Stefan, >> >> Thanks for the hard work and sorting this great list out!! >> I'm OK with your preferred options, because most time they're also mine. I'm >> surprised we have so many exceptions! Just one thing, LineLength. I'm OK to >> use 120 for the check, but I would suggest we should try to avoid so long >> lines. Yes, we should never exceed the 120 limit, and if you do, it will >> fail the building; meanwhile, 80 is encouraged to make it consistent with >> most of existing codes. > > 80 chars line length limit is there for historical reasons : VT 100 > terminals where 25x 80 chars screen. Nowadays, even on a 15" laptop, I > can see around 150 chars on an edited file (in eclipse), even if the > edited file is not full screen (ie, I have the package explorer on the > left and the Outilne on the right). 120 is really a good limit. >
FTR: there are 1245 lines longer than 80 characters, when ignoring Javadoc there are still 1043 lines longer thant 80 characters.
