On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 5:32 PM, Nicolas B. Pierron <
nicolas.b.pier...@mozilla.com> wrote:

> On 03/27/2015 11:51 PM, Bobby Holley wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 2:04 PM, Mats Palmgren <m...@mozilla.com> wrote:
>>
>> So let's change the project-wide coding rules instead to allow 99
>>
>>> columns as the hard limit, but keep 80 columns as the recommended
>>> (soft) limit.
>>>
>>>
>> I think we should avoid opening up a can of worms on the merits of
>> different styles, and instead focus on the most pragmatic ways to unify
>> Gecko and JS style. Under that framework, Mats' proposal makes a lot of
>> sense.
>>
>>
> I do not see the advantages of having huge patches to rewrite an entire
> project just for the benefit of having only one style guide.
>

This was discussed extensively in [1]. I'd be happy to re-discuss the
merits with you sometime off-list, but the outcome of the thread was that
all the relevant module owners (including jorendorff and myself) agreed
that unifying style guides was an important goal. So let's just take that
goal as given and avoid getting sucked into rehashing that other thread.

[1]
https://lists.mozilla.org/pipermail/dev-platform/2014-January/002676.html
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