On Jul 29, 2008, at 2:25 PM, marius schebella wrote: > Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: >> On Jul 29, 2008, at 1:31 AM, Frank Barknecht wrote: >>> Hallo, >>> Luke Iannini hat gesagt: // Luke Iannini wrote: >>> >>>> There are some amazing sets of abstractions being released >>>> recently, >>>> which has served to highlight the many extant styles of >>>> patching. I >>>> was wondering if there was interest in establishing a set of >>>> guidelines for patching in the vein of PEP 8 for Python; I've found >>>> that document to be very relaxing as it is a standardized >>>> approach to >>>> OCD. More seriously, it greatly helps when reading other people's >>>> code or collaborating. >>>> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/ >>> I think, it would be important to first collect every possible style >>> element in the wild and document what people are using in reality. >>> That would be interesting. I'm not too much in favour of a style >>> "guide" >>> however. Let people be creative. >> Nobody is talking about requirements. If you don't like style >> guides, don't use them. But it is really not useful to squelch >> other people's efforts, especially when you don't even have an >> intention of using this stuff. > > I actually liked frank's idea to collect different people's ideas > and compare them. maybe there is some common sense in all of them? > marius.
Yeah, I think that was Luke's idea from the beginning. I agree that it is a good one. .hc ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- Access to computers should be unlimited and total. - the hacker ethic _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
