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I've renamed variables to avoid splitting a line on several occasions enforcing a common style I've seen people here for 6+ months still fighting this Or you
by ak217 14y ago
I've renamed variables to avoid splitting a line on several occasions
enforcing a common style
I've seen people here for 6+ months still fighting this
Or you could, you know, just treat each other as adult, responsible individuals.
Hint: rules for the sake of uniformity don't "defuse boneheadedness". They just suppress individuals, and eventually either drive them out or tame creativity, initiative, and responsibility out of them.
I mean, come on, you say that yourself! So just acknowledge that that's what you're doing. There are processes for making better software. These kinds of style guidelines are not among them.
- fusiongyro 14y agoI am unmoved by this argument. Forcing E.E. Cummings to use proper spelling and punctuation would certainly have had a detrimental effect on his poetry. The other couple billion English speakers benefit from consistency the other 99.9999% of the time. If you can't find non-syntactic ways to express your programming brilliance, creativity, initiative and responsibility, then I doubt you have all that much in the first place.
- thangalin 14y agoFor what it's worth, E. E. Cummings most often wrote his name with proper capitalization. http://www.gvsu.edu/english/cummings/caps.htm http://www.gvsu.edu/english/cummings/caps.htm
- fusiongyro 14y agoThanks, fixed.