-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Chuck Robey <[email protected]> writes: > >> The only real sin is not sticking to one style per project. > > Or at *least* per file.
Umm, no, per project. Folks are too pushed into errors when a project has 29 different styles. I don't like folks who try to make rules for the entire world (and they do, you know it and I know it) but it is a big help in making all stuff inside one project be formatted the same. I could really easily give you obvious examples of where this is needed (consider the include files for a source file). Yes, certainly, there are exceptions to this, but it's correct (being per project) in the huge majority of cases, right? Maybe I don't have enough trust in some folks, that they'll make the right decision. About 1/3 of the folks I used to teach C to, I had to drop, because they couldn't (wouldn't) accept the need to stay with a style, and that was only my rules (in teaching) per file. If I can't get that percentage of folks to appreciate things, I guess I just don't trust everyone to make sense on this. I had some real arguments from some people on this, it makes me sure that they were serious, not just looking to stop what had turned out to be a boring subject for themselves. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAknTzjMACgkQz62J6PPcoOkO7wCfVv4IzN+euqIsND22g2aS31z8 vxoAnAiFN2YFyuhA+d2nN34YTdbkKCdP =jjlq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
