How do you figure? The go language community uses one and they rave about it. We use them at work (c++) as well and its uses an obnoxious style, but it's still more readable than a dozen different conventions. On Mar 31, 2013 5:39 AM, "Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff" < ser...@elementaryos.org> wrote:
> I'm afraid automatic "prettifiers" are a terrible idea because blindly > restyling the code usually makes it lose any remains of readability it used > to have. In other words, automatically restyled code is even less readable > than code with a foreign coding style. > > > 2013/3/31 David Gomes <da...@elementaryos.org> > >> I wrote this in order to check for code style errors, but it's not >> perfect it's just a help-tool: >> >> https://github.com/elementary/vala-analyzer >> >> We have 'considered' using a prettifier too, but I just use Emacs to fix >> some stuff on my code - a prettifier script would be too much work and I >> don't know of any libraries that would help me with the task. >> >> >> On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 3:34 AM, Craig <webe...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Good work David. Have you (elementary) considered using a prettifier to >>> standardize a code style upon pushing to your trunk? >>> On Mar 28, 2013 7:17 PM, "Cody Garver" <c...@elementaryos.org> wrote: >>> >>>> Cool, it's pretty thorough. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 7:58 AM, David Gomes <da...@elementaryos.org>wrote: >>>> >>>>> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/19899464/reviewstutorial.html >>>>> >>>>> Hello guys, >>>>> >>>>> From time to time somebody still has doubts on how to use Launchpad >>>>> and Bazaar to review and merge branches to trunk so I wrote a tutorial. >>>>> Note though that it may need expansion. >>>>> >>>>> Many times, even experienced developers who have been in the Apps Team >>>>> for a long time make mistakes so even if you already know how to do it, >>>>> reading the tutorial won't hurt. >>>>> >>>>> I also recommend that all developers that in the future are to join >>>>> the Apps Team read this several times because even though we can always >>>>> revert messed-up commits, it's better to do it right at the first time. >>>>> >>>>> Best regards, >>>>> David "Munchor" Gomes >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community >>>>> Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net >>>>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community >>>>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Cody Garver >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community >>>> Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net >>>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community >>>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>>> >>>> >> >> -- >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community >> Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> > > > -- > Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff > OS architect @ elementary >
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