On Friday 04 December 2009 12:17:03 pm Jeremy Orlow wrote: > I'm not necessarily disagreeing with your conclusion, but I have to ask: > can you think of an example of a style change that isn't subjective and/or > something that can change as "the fashion" (or, more likely, the developers > working on the project) changes? Even stuff like the namespace change > really depends on your development style (to determine whether or not you > care about those 4 extra spaces "wasted").
Very little of it is not subjective. The main thing the style guide gives us is consistency. And that I am fully supportive of. But a lot of it is merely taste. The compiler excepts both. Two developers fully informed and both of great technical prowess can reasonably disagree on almost all points of the style guide. That meets my definition of subjective for this purpose. Regarding the namespace change, I objected to that change too (and for the very same reasons) if you look through the archives. I don't think we should be changing the style guide for anything besides clarifications of currently unwritten rules. No matter how the fashion may change or how developers may change. Changing the rules throws consistency out the window which is, I believe, the greatest benefit of having a style guide. Cheers, Adam _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
