[katello-devel] Updated Ruby style guide

[Jason Rist]

On 10/15/2012 01:22 AM, Lukas Zapletal wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 02:15:43PM -0400, David Davis wrote:
>> I'm also thinking of reiterating the 80 characters or less per line rule in our style guide. It's currently in the Github guide and I think it's great rule given that it's in our Python guide as well and Github cuts off commits after about 80 characters (you have to scroll over).
> 
> Why you think it's great? I think it's evil, because nobody no longer
> uses fixed eighty columns anymore and it's quite limiting. I mean, xterm
> opens up with 80, but everyone can resize it if needed.
> 
> There are many theoretical reasons why to wrap at 80 (like if a line is
> that long you should consider refactoring it blah blah). Crap. Give me
> practical reasons.
> 
> IMHO longer lines are sometimes better to read. And I personally very
> often need a line between 80 and let's say 100 which is very readable,
> but when wrapped it's awful.
> 
> I vote for not giving explicit limit and let it be: use reasonable line
> lengths.
> 


I personally like the no limits rule as well.  I would rather be able to
read the whole line than see it split with concatenation characters.

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