Yeah, forcing is not nice, but even these expectations below is a mild form of force, and worth documenting, in my opinion. Not everyone will know what is expected of them. Furthermore, consistent coding style, even if not one's favourite style, makes code easier to read and understand, than code with a mix of styles. Anyhow, lets move on... :)
Otis --- Doug Cutting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Scott Ganyo wrote: > > Nevertheless, I'm willing to accept that you have defined it as > "Lucene > > standard style" and I do abide by it when developing Lucene... > > I don't think style should be (or even can be) mandated. When > writing > new code from scratch, a developer should of course try use a style > that > is not egregiously different than that of the code that it's destined > to > join, but he or she doesn't have to rigidly adhere to an identical > style. When editing existing code, a good-faith effort should be > made > to adhere to its existing style. That's just good manners. > > In general, we should respect the styles of other developers, and > hope > in turn that they will respect our style choices. I don't mind a > project with a variety of styles: the personality of the developer > should show in the code. I don't even mind a class with different > methods coded in different styles if they were written at different > times and/or by different developers. > > So I don't think there is a "Lucene standard style". There's my > style, > which accounts for a lot of the code because I wrote a lot of the > code. > But, for example, the German analyzer, which I did not write, is in > a > different style. That's not mayhem, it's just tolerance of > diversity. > > Doug > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
