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If there was one personal taste, this is achievable. There is not. There are a variety of personal tastes and they all conflict with each other.

• treis 1y ago
  Which is my fundamental problem with peer review. There should be one gatekeeper to a code base that enforces some style preference. Practically which style they choose matters very little compared to having one predictable and enforced style to follow.
  • rileymat2 1y ago
    To clarify, I am talking about more than surface level style. A small example adding an item to a list, it might be preference whether you use “push” or “append” Don’t care which, but it is maddening to have a unit of code that mixes them. There are all these choices that are numerous that should be consistent, but too numerous to add to a standards document ahead of time.
• hinkley 1y ago
  None of us mature in the same directions at the same speed. What is taken by one as taste may be for another a hard won lesson in neglect or negligence.
  • dietr1ch 1y ago
    I kept explaining the reasoning behind my nits and built my own DB of issues, explaining why it was a problem and what to do to reference as I started to explain my points over and over to different colleagues. I feel that just giving out what to change without context does little to teach the hard won lessons, and is everything that would annoy people who are trying to get a change in.