Is there any convention about maximum columns like...
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Hong Minhee
12/12/2019, 7:50 PMIs there any convention about maximum columns like 80 or 120? I just read Coding Conventions in the Kotlin website, but it says nothing about maximum columns.
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serebit
12/12/2019, 7:53 PMI personally hold to 120, but I don't think there's an official convention for it.
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Casey Brooks
12/12/2019, 7:59 PMThe official Android coding style uses 100 (https://developer.android.com/kotlin/style-guide#line_wrapping), but Kotlin itself imposes no convention. Note that this is the style for Android’s own source code, not necessarily the recommentation for Kotlin Android code at-large, and Google usually has different style guides than what the community typically uses.
I, myself, prefer 120 columns, fwiw
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Adam Powell
12/12/2019, 11:42 PMUse whatever lets you comfortably read two files side by side on your laptop screen
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Hong Minhee
12/13/2019, 6:29 AMThank you for answers!
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Tim McCormack
12/14/2019, 1:30 PMAdam knows what's up.
Tim McCormack
12/14/2019, 1:31 PMYou can't feasibly get it down to 80 columns for all of your code, but anything beyond 80 to 100 can make diffs really hard to read.
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