" Consistency is important, the minutiae of capitalization and whitespace is not."
I don't agree with this, as standards go the whitespace (tab obsession) is very important. Take this example (might not come out right on email. Select * From Table Where X = 1 And Y = 1 And this Select * From Table Where X = 1 and Y = 1 These are different standards, if you get used to reading the first, you easily miss the second part of the where in the second. Regards Dale Fraser http://learncf.com -----Original Message----- From: Sean Corfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 8 October 2007 2:06 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: CF Coding Standards On 10/7/07, Daniel Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've recently set up a wiki that contains coding standards, and used a lot > of the LiveDocs recommendations Glad you found them useful. > The "Stylistic" category defines things such as capitalization and > indentation. It may have been a bad idea, but with this category, we came to > a lot of these standards based on the consensus of the group It's funny but the stylistic stuff is really completely pointless and unnecessary - as long as you're consistent - but that "fluffy" stuff is what seems to get everyone's attention and they totally miss the *important* stuff which is all about structure and design. I wrote coding standards for a living - for several years - for medium to large corporates, for a variety of languages. My company based them on a a lot of code analysis, a lot of reviews and a lot of experience. In general, we would not make recommendations about "cosmetic" stuff and only if a client insisted would be add in naming conventions and other irrelevant stuff. You need to stop obsessing about that level of things. Consistency is important, the minutiae of capitalization and whitespace is not. -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion is delivering applications solutions at at top companies around the world in government. Find out how and where now http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/showcase/index.cfm?event=finder&productID=1522&loc=en_us Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290510 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
