Andy Lester wrote:
On May 1, 2009, at 2:37 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
Regardless, I
agree with Tom that the idea of having decorators of any kind in source
or docs is a bad idea.
Why is it a bad idea? I don't understand the downside of a line or
two at the bottom of a source file.
Because it becomes one more maintenance task we don't need.
That being said, there is no reason why we can have a section of the
wiki that has .rc files for respective editors and environments that
conform to .Org coding conventions.
I've always found it preferable to have the editors enforce the coding
standards for us, without relying on the coder do anything on his
end. I'd rather that volunteers, especially new volunteers, spend
their time and brain cycles thinking about code, not messing with
config files.
FWIW I had a quick look at two other OS projects: the linux kernel and
the apache httpd server. Apache is simple - there's one vim line and no
vi lines in the whole source. The linux kernel is a mess. There are a
couple of hundred files with inconssistent mode lines. Most have none
(and there are thousands).
So we're hardly alone in not doing it the way you're suggesting.
cheers
andrew
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