Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:27:31 -0400 From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@telenix.org> To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-chat-local@be-well.ilk.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why?? (prog question) Message-ID: <49D3CE33.8010004@telenix.org> In-Reply-To: <44y6uk1s7g.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> References: <20090331025726.GA10888@thought.org> <20090331112122.ae329221.freebsd@edvax.de> <49D202F0.9010104@utoronto.ca> <20090331140845.a1ece3c0.freebsd@edvax.de> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0903311623210.19609@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <49D24EC8.7030507@gmail.com> <49D27D8B.2070607@telenix.org> <44y6uk1s7g.fsf@lowell-desk.lan>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Chuck Robey <chuckr@telenix.org> 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. I don't like folks who try to make rules for the entire world (and they do, you know it and I know it) but it is a big help in making all stuff inside one project be formatted the same. I could really easily give you obvious examples of where this is needed (consider the include files for a source file). Yes, certainly, there are exceptions to this, but it's correct (being per project) in the huge majority of cases, right? Maybe I don't have enough trust in some folks, that they'll make the right decision. About 1/3 of the folks I used to teach C to, I had to drop, because they couldn't (wouldn't) accept the need to stay with a style, and that was only my rules (in teaching) per file. If I can't get that percentage of folks to appreciate things, I guess I just don't trust everyone to make sense on this. I had some real arguments from some people on this, it makes me sure that they were serious, not just looking to stop what had turned out to be a boring subject for themselves. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAknTzjMACgkQz62J6PPcoOkO7wCfVv4IzN+euqIsND22g2aS31z8 vxoAnAiFN2YFyuhA+d2nN34YTdbkKCdP =jjlq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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