I'm also 1+ on consistant coding standards/conventions, regardless what form they take. Maybe I'm missing something, but what's the difference between automatically enforcing style and manually refactoring a class to be in conformance with the standard? Would standardizing on a single tool resolve the sync problem?
> -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Mahieu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 9:13 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Suggested coding convention: sort methods > > > The real can of worms is opened when developers start > reformatting code > with Pretty Printers or IDEs and then try to get their > patches applied; > everything is suddenly out of sync with what's in CVS. Even > automatically enforcing the style as it gets checked in > doesn't really > avoid that one. > > I'm sure I could find some earlier, er, 'discussions' about > this in the > archives of other mailing lists for everyone's amusement ;-) > > For what it's worth, I'm +1 on the general idea though. > > Mark > >
