Coding style and white space

Benjamin nystire at gmail.com
Thu Jan 16 00:32:46 UTC 2014


Are the flaming and discarding being done for the children? Or is using the
correct coding style being done for them?


On 16 January 2014 07:01, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:

>
> I made yet another absolutely futile attempt to clean up the coding
> style and whitespace to be more consistent. I realize that I'm fighting
> windmills here, but what the heck.
>
> I even added a CodingStyle file - for what little good that will do.
>
> Some of you (not naming names) clearly have IDEs set up to do things
> like "four space indent" and some of you love typing things like
>
> if(condition){
>         do_something();
>         do_second_thing();
> }
> else
>         do_something_else();
>
> Please. People.
>
> This isn't hard. And it REALLY helps your eyes when looking for patterns
> and browsing through code if it is all consistent.
>
> if (condition) {
>         do_something();
>         do_second_thing();
> } else {
>         do_something_else();
> }
>
> And just in case there is any confusion about this. Linus is GOD and I'm
> his sheriff in this town... so this coding style is the law and anyone
> against it will be shot.
>
> But since GOD is in a generous mood some times, we usually just flame
> people (and discarding the bodies that are piling up really gets too
> much work over time... and it wrecks havoc with retention of the
> talent...)
>
> Anyway. Please. Do it for the children.
>
> /D
>
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