[Phpmyadmin-devel] Maximum length of variable names

[Hugues Peccatte]

2014/1/5 Marc Delisle <marc at infomarc.info>

> Le 2014-01-05 14:31, Hugues Peccatte a écrit :
> > Hi,
> >
> > 2014/1/5 Marc Delisle <marc at infomarc.info <mailto:marc at infomarc.info>>
> >
> >     Hi,
> >     I'm aware that I'm opening a can of worms, but can we discuss PHPMD
> >     rules?
> >
> >     In particular, I find that to obey the maximum variable name (20
> >     characters) rule, one has to sometimes abbreviate at the expanse of
> >     clarity.
> >
> >
> http://ci.phpmyadmin.net/job/phpMyAdmin/908/pmdResult/type.811406648/
> >
> > I agree. Many rules are useful to keep the code clear, but sometimes it
> > could be a constraint.
> > Marc is talking about the length of variable names, but it's the same
> > thing about the line length. Limit to 80 characters is out-of-dated. Our
> > screen are larger than "before" so let's use more. (And you choose to
> > use more because our standard is now 85 characters. In my job, we
> > decided to use 120.)
> > But this was only an example to support what Marc said.
>
> Well, on my laptop, I don't have that much space and I'm happy with the
> current line length limit.
>
> >
> > But if I'm right, the problem of PMD is that you can activate a group of
> > rules but not a single rule. (Some one to contradict this please ?)
> >
> > One possibility could be to try to implement the interesting rules in
> > PHPCS if they don't exist.
> >
> > Hugues.
> >
>
>
> --
> Marc Delisle
> http://infomarc.info | http://phpmyadmin.net
>
>
You're right. We are not at work, we don't have all the same devices. But
it was only to say that things need to evolve and to ask if there is a way
to activate only some PMD rules.

Hugues.
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