Totally, I'll just read what I'm given - or reformat in an IDE if it's *really* bad (e.g. written with a different tab size other than 4)
I'm also finding that the guideline 2 space indents in Scala is a nice visual reminder as to which language I'm working in, more than once I've found myself typing `val x = ...` in Java code! Scala does have a bit more syntactic flexibility that Java does, but the choices available are in a similar category to bracket placement in Java (i.e. you may prefer to write in a different style to the code you're looking at, but that won't really make it unreadable). The choice of paradigm (imperative/functional/type classes/etc.) is more likely to cause problems than the choice of syntax, but - again - this is of a similar level to encountering something like singletons or the visitor pattern for the first time. 2010/9/19 Cédric Beust ♔ <ced...@beust.com> > I've found Java to be remarkably style impervious in the sense that I can > read Java code using all kinds of different styles (different indentations, > different brace placements, different namings for fields or variables, > etc...) and not be bothered by it for more than a few seconds. > > I can't say the same about C++ and it's probably too early to tell whether > Scala has this nice quality too. > > -- > Cédric > > > > On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 9:37 AM, B Smith-Mannschott <bsmith.o...@gmail.com > > wrote: > >> >> >> On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 18:03, Josh Berry <tae...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 1:43 AM, Reinier Zwitserloot <reini...@gmail.com >>> > wrote: >>> >>>> I usually get funny looks and stares when I argue this, but in my >>>> opinion a good programming language _defines_ style rules. >>> >>> >>> >>> Meh. I think it is a waste of time to worry about most of the style >>> rules. Not to mention, style is such a nebulous term that it is borderline >>> idiotic to really try and codify it. Imagine if you had a style for what >>> prose should read like. This is what most people try to do with >>> programming. :) (I saw a good analogy with Jazz the other day. Have you >>> ever tried to >>> >> codify "good" music?) >>> >>> (not that anyone asked, but I have a few worthless thoughts on the layout >> side of coding standards...) >> >> I'm all for having a standardized code style, but I have yet to see a code >> style or automatic formatting tool that doesn't >> make at least some of a sufficiently large and varied code base look like >> a$$. There are things good programmer can do with style/layout to guide the >> reader, which by-the-letter adherence to any one code style would make hash >> out of. >> >> For Java, I hew closely to Sun's style guidelines (with 4-space indents, >> no tabs), but I'm not too uptight about it. I can see the advantages of BSD >> (braces on their own lines), particularly with complex conditionals or >> methods with many parameters. OTOH, overly zealous adherance to BSD style >> makes inner classes read badly. >> >> For Clojure and Scheme I just do whatever emacs tells me. ;-) >> >> For Oberon, I used hard tabs and put multiple statements together on one >> line if they seemed to "chunk" [1] together. No tricks with vertical >> alignment (unless one cared to explicitly set tab-stops) the standard font >> (Syntax) was proportional. >> >> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunking_(psychology) >> >> // ben >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "The Java Posse" group. >> To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<javaposse%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. >> > > > > -- > Cédric > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<javaposse%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > -- Kevin Wright mail / gtalk / msn : kev.lee.wri...@gmail.com pulse / skype: kev.lee.wright twitter: @thecoda -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
