On 07/13/2011 08:31 AM, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 2:16 PM, David Shrewsbury
<[email protected]> wrote:
For every one way someone prefers to code, there are several others
that prefer the other way.
Is that a reason to stop trying to improve?
Personally, I like the standard we have in
place. Is it a big deal either way? No.
Yes. Readability and simplicity of code are important aspects.
But let's just stick with what we
have, or else risk someone else coming along and preferring to change
it all over again and risk getting in a death-spiral of meaningless
coding standard changes.
Could you tell why you prefer the current standard on these two points?
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/01/msg00153.html
You seem to have a pattern of expecting people to go into painstaking
detail to explain why they don't happen to agree with your ideas.
When nobody feels like engaging in the infinite time-sink of trying to
answer "Why aren't things the way I think they should be?", it is not
necessarily a confirmation of the merit of your ideas about how things
should be, but more likely a sign that people don't want to go there /
be bothered with it. One might also argue that it is not a very polite
way of agitating for change in a community project - "If nobody can
explain - to my satisfaction - why things aren't *my* way, I will view
it as confirmation that things *should* be my way"
I'm not saying your ideas don't have merit, just that the onus is on you
to defend their worth rather than expecting everyone else to defend the
way things are working now.
Olaf
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