--- Mathieu Bouchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > > > I think automatic reformatting is the only way - unless a project wants > > too repell developers. > > The main branch of Pd must be repelling people in another way, because > not that many changes are made by non-Millers, and they all have like 5 > years of experience using Pd. > > And even then, if any aspect of the code repels people, it's not > necessarily negative. If five aspects of *my* code repel people, but > mostly the same people in each case, and I assess that there's at least > one aspect that I won't change no matter what, then there is not much > incentive to "fix" any of those other four, especially if there are > various downsides to adapting to those programmers. > > Then I would also have to assess how much those programmers can contribute > anything worthwhile if they have several principles that reduce their own > productivity (e.g. "macros are evil") and that also reduce mine. > ...
Probably I didn't express myself clearly enough. I meant the following: 1) if no formatting is enforced on a project, nobody is repelled, since everybody has the possibility/freedom to write code the way he/she likes; 2) if formatting is considered necessary, it'd better be done automatically in order not to repell contributors who prefer a different formatting style. ... And, by the way, I have nothing against macros. Regards, Sergei. Applications From Scratch: http://appsfromscratch.berlios.de/ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for a deal? Find great prices on flights and hotels with Yahoo! FareChase. http://farechase.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ PD-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev
