> Formatting issues are the most contentious but the least > consequential. People can adapt to different formatting styles > but it's better if they don't have to, and less time is devoted > to the topic if everyone adheres to the same style.
It's not a question of whether someone can read today's code more easily in a given format. The problem is being able to trace changes back though several years history of the code to find where bugs were introduced. Any change to the formatting of the code effectively kills the ability to be able to track the real changes. If you really need to, take a copy of the code, beautify the copy while you work out how it is structured, but any changes you make to the original should respect the original layout. I've been on projects where the code was beautified after a significant number of revisions (not even years) to some new coding standard, and it has always proved counterproductive. Cheers D _______________________________________________ fltk-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk-dev
