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If guidelines were meant to be enforced, they'd be syntax.
by goodside 16y ago
If guidelines were meant to be enforced, they'd be syntax.
- kwamenum86 16y agowell said
- pgbovine 16y agonot necessarily ... official language standards bodies might make decisions much more slowly than individual hackers or groups, and even when a feature is officially baked into a new version of the syntax, it might take compilers/interpreters several more years to all implement them properly. there's definitely a need for good lightweight static checking of guidelines in IDEs
- maw 16y agoNo, because guidelines can be overridden when there's a good case for doing so. Not so with syntax.
- j_baker 16y agoAgreed. "Style is only necessary where understanding is lacking." - Doug Hoyte