Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 00:22:51 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: "Goodleaf, John" <JGoodleaf@ctiseattle.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: <do not read if OT annoys you> group coding standards Message-ID: <20040607212251.GA70327@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <CE08B4435DAA314CB549C1DBA2677AAC147C05@CTI-501EXCHANGE.celltherapeutics.local> References: <CE08B4435DAA314CB549C1DBA2677AAC147C05@CTI-501EXCHANGE.celltherapeutics.local>
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On 2004-06-07 13:10, "Goodleaf, John" <JGoodleaf@ctiseattle.com> wrote: > > It's a hard problem. How do you provide conventions that don't annoy > the hell out of programmers, but which ensure that legibile, > maintainable code is left? First of all, I should note this: As long as there is a way to configure the two most popular editors (vi and Emacs) to adhere to this standard of yours, the only thing that matters is to avoid like hell all non-standard styles. Consistently keeping the standard is more important than the rules of the standard itself. > Any suggestions welcome. Please cc me directly, as I'm not currently > on this list. Some people hate the resulting style, other love it... but there is a coding standards' guideline on your FreeBSD installation waiting to be read by you: man 9 style - Giorgos
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