Rule #1 from The Elements of Java Style is:
Adhere to the style of the original
----- Original Message -----
From: "robert burrell donkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Jakarta General List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Jakarta Commons Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 12:49 PM
Subject: Re: More abuse of coding styles...
> i'd just like to point out that i didn't write that bit of code (but
> neither did i correct it).
>
> personally speaking, i'm not going to risk having patches vetoed because i
> try to correct the original author's coding style.
>
> any committer who has the time and energy to fight is very welcome to
> correct the many deviations from the standards that you'll find in the
> commons (and in the other projects as well, no doubt).
> - robert
>
> On Friday, January 4, 2002, at 01:54 AM, Jon Scott Stevens wrote:
>
> > It is amazing to me...with all the discussion about coding styles and
> > following them, we still have people committing code that doesn't follow
> > what rules we do have...
> >
> > on 1/3/02 11:00 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Re: cvs commit: jakarta-
> > commons/logging/src/java/org/apache/commons/logging
> > SimpleLog.java
> >
> >> + if(_showtime) {
> >
> > <http://java.sun.com/docs/codeconv/html/CodeConventions.doc8.html#367>
> >
> > "Variable names should not start with underscore _ or dollar sign $
> > characters, even though both are allowed."
> >
> > <http://jakarta.apache.org/site/source.html>
> >
> > "All Java Language source code in the repository must be written in
> > conformance to the "Code Conventions for the Java Programming Language
as
> > published by Sun."
> >
> > -jon
> >
> >
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