Kathey Marsden wrote:
Rick Hillegas wrote:
Here's what the community approved:
http://www.nabble.com/-VOTE---Approve-coding-conventions-for-the-Derby-project-td5771191.html
We are supposed to use spaces rather than tabs and indentation should
be 4 spaces according to the included standard
(http://java.sun.com/docs/codeconv/html/CodeConvTOC.doc.html).
However, we also allowed ourselves plenty of wiggle room in old code.
I always felt uneasy about following the clue from old code. There are
many places in the code base where tabs and
spaces are used interchangeably. This rule basically
1) Can create ambiguity when both tabs and spaces exist
2) Cause bad code style to just worsen, since you would just follow the
old coding style
But I understand the vote is over, and I actually voted +1 :), and the
other points that were
delved upon seemed quite reasonable.
Narayanan
Well there were quite a few rumblings during the vote so I am not
totally sure it passed or at least that consensus was reached.
Here is the summary.
http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A--VOTE---Approve-coding-conventions-for-the-Derby-project-p5840119.html
Kathey
