Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > On Jul 29, 2008, at 2:04 PM, Frank Barknecht wrote: >> I really cannot see where you got the impression that I'm squelching >> Luke's suggestion, when I briefly expressed a certain personal >> scepticism regarding style guides in two sentences of currently three >> much longer mails in this thread, which I considered to be >> constructive, >> at least as brainstorming fodder or to give some motivations on how >> and >> why my personal style evolved the way it did. > > From this sentence: > > "I'm not too much in favour of a style "guide" however. Let people be > creative." > > Maybe I overreacted. I think there is a lot of negative tone on this > list, I am sure I have contributed to that as well. I think we > should encourage people to try things more than telling them its > wrong before they have started. > > Or maybe I'm just a fucking hippie... "peace 'n' love dude!"
Although I am more or less just a lurker on this list, and sometimes an asker of stupid questions, not to mention a person with too messy patches, I find the idea of a style guide very good, and here is my reasoning: As most of us Pd users think of Pd as a programming language, then Pd should have one or more style guides just as any other programming language, so other people's patches (read: source code) are easy to read to you. You do not need to have a definite style guide, just as there are several indent styles for functional programming languages, there may be several styles for Pd programming, but guidelines for newbies are a Good Thing (tm), as you can't teach an old dog new tricks. Just my two cents, Thomas -- "Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance." (Leto II. in: Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune) http://thomas.dergrossebruder.org/ _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
