What does everyone think?
My thoughts are clearly expressed in sourcecode. I have consistantly renamed things which were referred to differently to what I thought was clearer (for instance XF record is called ExtendedFormatRecord). I'm not sure it will be practical in this case. On the whole though, my thoughts on coding conventions are also clearly expressed in sourcecode.
My preference for voting on such conventions are by outcoding and out-readible-coding others. Meaning the easiest way to enforce your viewpoints on others is to write more/better source than them. To prove your point that K&R bracket style is indeed clearer, write clearer code than them which utilizes this style. As much bitching as they may wish to proclaim, they know secretly in their hearts that my coding style is the predominant one. Therefore, the course of action is simple. Begin writing lots of new functionality and unit tests. Obviously as a newcomer you can't just submit patches which are entirely reformatting/renaming, but you can submit patches which provide new functionality which others will apply due to their desire to see this functionality incorporated. (Patches with entirely comments will also be greatly accepted of course).
If someone disagrees, their course of action is equally simple....out-contribute you. I find this method of discussing conventions prefferable to ending up in bikeshed and religious discussions about coding conventions. My votes are in... (find src/java -name *.java -exec grep -i 'acoliver' |wc -l)
:-D
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