+1 on Sun (& Apache) standards
+1 on Turbine standards
-1 on using tabs (as implied by the previous: Turbine standards forbid tabs)
Mike Stover wrote:
Your concern is valid. The diff's thing just doesn't bother me much. But if ya'll are
in agreement, then we can just use Sun's standard.
I suppose I'll start the vote. Use Sun's standard for code format (this is also
Apache standard)? -1 for me.
Use Tabs (not spaces) in code: BIG ol' +1 from me. Please, please please....
-Mike
On 4 Jan 2003 at 21:15, Oliver Rossmueller wrote:
Mike Stover wrote:
Re: code-style - I'm not a big fan of standards that insist on X number of spaces,
braces have to be here and here, etc. I don't understand why that needs to be
standard when, at the push of a button, my IDE makes the code look exactly the
way I want it to look. If you don't have such an IDE, there are lots of independent
packages that do it, JRefactory being one of the most interesting (available at
sourceforge). The only thing I'd like to see is the use of tabs, so no one has to do
anything special to get their spacing right.
That, however, just points out the real problem - having coding standards doesn't
automatically make things easier for everyone. It makes things a pain for those
who "lose" the debate, and easier for those who win. I'd rather see everyone win.
Get yourself a simple code formatter, and use it on files you edit, if you like.
There is no problem to get the sources formatted the way you like it,
everybody has an IDE or tool to do this. But the point is: if everybody
does formatting the way he/she likes it and commits these reformatted
sources to the cvs you will get lots of diffs not because of changes in
the implementation but because of reformatting and therefore it is hard
to see the changes that really matter. In the long run you save a lot of
time by having a styleguide. Of course this requires some compromises,
but that's is the way team work goes. So if there is a styleguide we can
reuse from another jakarta project we should just do it. Otherwise we
have to find our own.
Oliver
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