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Style recommendations are great and if I was writing code for the standard library, I would certainly follow them. But they don't simply recommend their style.
by andresmanz 11y ago
Style recommendations are great and if I was writing code for the standard library, I would certainly follow them. But they don't simply recommend their style. "We recommend doing this like that" is very different from "Doing this that way is considered poor style". That sounds like their recommendations were objective facts and you shouldn't do anything else, even if that worked better for you and the majority of other programmers.
- dragonwriter 11y ago> That sounds like their recommendations were objective facts On the one hand, it is an objective fact that it is considered, by the authors, poor style. On the other hand, that it is "considered" anything is an explicit (not merely implicit) statement that it is subjective (and "poor style" -- or good style, for that matter is inherently subjective in any case.) So, characterizing that language as making it sound "like their recommendations are objective facts" seems quite bizarre.
- andresmanz 11y agoYou can say that it can be an objective fact, though, that the majority of 'good developers' considers all that stuff poor style. Which is what I get from reading that book. If they don't intend to imply that, they should write it in a different way. The authors of various other books on various other programming languages are able to do that.