I can understand the point of needing to be consistent but I have worked on some projects where the consistent style was extremely hard to follow because the person who did everything originally feared whitespace so no tabs very littles spaces and very little new lines. Although now days a lot of programs would make things easy in going in there and dividing things up to some extent, still was a pain at the time.
On 10/7/07, Dave Watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > " Consistency is important, the minutiae of capitalization > > and whitespace is not." > > > > I don't agree with this, as standards go the whitespace (tab > > obsession) is very important. > > > > Take this example (might not come out right on email. > > > > Select * > > From Table > > Where X = 1 > > And Y = 1 > > > > And this > > > > Select * > > From Table > > Where X = 1 and Y = 1 > > > > These are different standards, if you get used to reading the > > first, you easily miss the second part of the where in the second. > > Perhaps, but neither is superior to the other. Pick one and go with it - > that's Sean's point. That's consistency. > > Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software > http://www.figleaf.com/ > > Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized > instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, > Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. > Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Get the answers you are looking for on the ColdFusion Labs Forum direct from active programmers and developers. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm?forumid-72&catid=648 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290530 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
