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>>> the new coding style is better, more efficient, and would even prevent mistakes going forwards. Except that's wrong. The new style is not "better" at all.
by user5994461 8y ago
>>> the new coding style is better, more efficient, and would even prevent mistakes going forwards.
Except that's wrong. The new style is not "better" at all. Replacing CamelCase with underscore_variables and forcing brackets on new lines make no practical differences.
All the time to rewrite hundreds of files was just churn.
- stcredzero 8y agoExcept that's wrong. The new style is not "better" at all. RAII is tons better than older memory management styles in C++. The newer styles of C++ initialization are tons better than the older ones, which seem to inevitably result in a dozen ad-hoc mini-initialization frameworks. Replacing CamelCase with underscore_variables That is indeed arbitrary and useless. forcing brackets on new lines Forcing brackets on new lines is useless. Mandating the use of brackets has been shown to be very useful for reducing bugs.