From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 3 19:50:41 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA545106566B for ; Fri, 3 Apr 2009 19:50:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@telenix.org) Received: from mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.9]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 815888FC1E for ; Fri, 3 Apr 2009 19:50:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@telenix.org) Received: (qmail 32385 invoked from network); 3 Apr 2009 19:50:41 -0000 Received: from april.chuckr.org (HELO april.telenix.org) (chuckr@[66.92.151.30]) (envelope-sender ) by mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 3 Apr 2009 19:50:40 -0000 Message-ID: <49D668B4.1090208@telenix.org> Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:51:16 -0400 From: Chuck Robey User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090121) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lowell Gilbert References: <20090331025726.GA10888@thought.org> <20090331112122.ae329221.freebsd@edvax.de> <49D202F0.9010104@utoronto.ca> <20090331140845.a1ece3c0.freebsd@edvax.de> <49D24EC8.7030507@gmail.com> <49D27D8B.2070607@telenix.org> <44y6uk1s7g.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> <49D3CE33.8010004@telenix.org> <44vdpo81sn.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <44vdpo81sn.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.5 OpenPGP: id=F3DCA0E9; url=http://pgp.mit.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why?? (prog question) X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:50:42 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Chuck Robey writes: > >> Lowell Gilbert wrote: >>> Chuck Robey writes: >>> >>>> The only real sin is not sticking to one style per project. >>> Or at *least* per file. >> Umm, no, per project. Folks are too pushed into errors when a project has 29 >> different styles. > > If you write all your code from scratch, you can do that. > I don't have experience with non-trivial projects that *don't* > include substantial amounts of third-party code. Reformatting > third-party code to fit your style is a mistake if you want to > ever take another drop of that code. > > When there's more than one style in a particular file, however, > somebody needs to be slapped with a dead fish. I recall, long while back, using CTree database code, but I never added to their source code files, never modified their files at all, so maybe I should have said "locally written" code, because you obviously can't control what your boss buys after 3 drinks. Or 5. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAknWaLQACgkQz62J6PPcoOk56QCgkyce1IUhg3UfNSWvGDsJgHLj kSQAn34mnpmWu+w7NIOfMhcu58P6Qu8Y =Sje6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----