Yeah that struck me as an exceptionally minor thing to care about. Seriously we got way bigger problems than this in most code: reams of code duplication, 10 cl

Yeah that struck me as an exceptionally minor thing to care about. Seriously we got way bigger problems than this in most code: reams of code duplication, 10 classes deep inheritance hierarchies, monster classes, 2 pages long methods. In fact one of the most counterproductive things I have seen at work is people arguing at length about tiny details in the code standard and wasting hours work and goodwill. My take on this is, you give people advice on why a code standard is good to follow. But if they insist on tiny little quirk, let it be. It is not worth fighting over. The whole development community is full of people with all sort of little quirks. At the end of the day we got to get stuff done, and you have to weigh the benefits of stepping on somebody's toes against what you gain from it.