We do have coding conventions, as mentioned here: http://wiki.apache.org/pig/HowToContribute
. We use the ones you reference, except that we use spaces rather
than tabs. As for characters per line, we do still use 80. Even if
we don't live in the middle ages some of us like to have multiple
panes open at a time and be able to see across them :)
I'm fine wiht 80 too - no discussion need.
It looks to me most of the code does not follow this coding
conventions. I'm always not sure if a patch should follow the coding
conventions in this one class or use the java once - it is getting
messy in any case.
Even if it is very unpopular and painful one day we might need to run
a code formatter over all classes (or step by step)and I suggest to do
that earlier than later.
Writing patches would be easier after that.
Just my 2 cents.
Stefan
