On 28 Jul 2011, at 14:33, Peter B. West wrote: > On 28/07/2011, at 9:59 PM, Vincent Hennebert wrote: > >> By putting it at a non-expected place you’re making it difficult to find >> the variable and understand in a quick glance what the class is made of. >> This hampers the readability and maintainability of the code. Given that >> it’s what we spend most of our time on, I find this worrying. > > That is, by assisting the understanding of the use of this variable, you have > made it harder to "understand in a quick glance." But in any case...
That is: "By putting it at place where I did not expect it, you are making it difficult for normal people, like me, to find it --because, well, it is then located near to where it is actually used-- and understand in a quick glance [...] I find this worrying --and did not care much for _your_ intentions either way." And then, a bit later: On 29 Jul 2011, at 12:57, Vincent Hennebert wrote: > I don’t think I was attacking anyone. I realise that there is bad past > experience about this, but I don’t believe anything similar happened > here. I’m sorry if my message sounded confrontational. "I did not do anything wrong! Sorry if that was too confrontational. Can we play nice again? Can we? Please?" > I suppose I could write a whole chapter about how I am affected by > unreadable and unmaintainable code in FOP almost on a daily basis; About > the anger, the frustration, and sometimes the total despair that result > from this. But I’ll refrain to this paragraph. "I suppose I could write a whole chapter about how I am affected by the awful mess you old-timers have left me with. The voices, the nightmares, the hair-ripping... but I will remain civil, because I am perfect and never do anything wrong. No, really. It's true. Everyone who agrees with me, says so." Regards, Andreas ---
