From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 1 22:08:47 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 37E7F1065674 for ; Wed, 1 Apr 2009 22:08:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-chat-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F0F88FC13 for ; Wed, 1 Apr 2009 22:08:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-chat-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 21471 invoked from network); 1 Apr 2009 22:08:41 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 1 Apr 2009 22:08:41 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 04DA45084D; Wed, 1 Apr 2009 18:08:41 -0400 (EDT) To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org 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> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:08:40 -0400 In-Reply-To: <49D3CE33.8010004@telenix.org> (Chuck Robey's message of "Wed\, 01 Apr 2009 16\:27\:31 -0400") Message-ID: <44vdpo81sn.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:08:47 -0000 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.