Hi. > > >If you do find it ridiculous, it is indeed only because of habit; > >others > >might be used to (and thus prefer) > > > > y > > - x > > Personally, I find: > > a = y - > x; > > easier to read than: > > a = y > - x; > > In the former I tend to miss that there isn't a ';' at the end of the line > and that I need to read the next line to get the full story.
That's a good point. Whatever the choice, there are advantages and drawbacks. > > I agree that this is pretty much entirely personal habit and preference. > Given that this has all the appearances of one of those style things > that you are never going to get agreement from on Commons committers on, > may I suggest that this is left to components to decide rather than being > a commons-wide setting one way or the other. In the [Math] area of this list, we have a discussion about formalizing certain rules. This has certainly not the purpose of having all the components follow the same set of rules. I noted there that it would be nice to have a uniform formatting style _per programming project_. Best regards, Gilles > > Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
