On Fri, 2012-08-17 at 14:29 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Ian Lepore > > No! Not bde! He'll notice that I violated style(9) by accidentally > > leaving an extra blank line between a comment block and the function > > definition. :) (There are probably more violations than that -- I did > > this when I was first trying to come to grips with the differences > > between style(9) and the almost-style(9) standards we use at work.) > > > > When I first proposed the changes, jhb remarked that they sounded good, > > but as far as I know, nobody reviewed the actual diff when I posted it. > > It looks like bde and phk were the primary maintainers back when this > > code was being more actively worked on. > > Why not bde? Everyone needs to learn what the term "bruceification" means. > > Believe me, there IS good reason for programming style and almost > everyone with a commit bit gets close. bde will provide a reminder of > any of those things you forgot were in style(9). This is something we > should appreciate, even if it does sting a bit. Did you miss the smiley I buried between two sentences there? Having worked on code written with no style guidelines, I totally understand the need for consistent style. While I find a couple of style(9)'s edicts to be massively annoying, all in all I'd rather work on code that has a consistent style I hate than on code with no consistency. -- IanReceived on Fri Aug 17 2012 - 20:24:20 UTC
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