On 2011-09-20, at 9:51 AM, Robin Sheat wrote: > Op dinsdag 20 september 2011 04:18:02 schreef MJ Ray: >> Probably. I dislike delegating this decision to an O'Reilly book > > I prefer to delegate to Conway than some other arbitrary standard. The > publisher is irrelevant.
> >> So, why would it be worth changing the line length limits, >> indentation, outdentation, brace-tightness, and semicolon spacing to pbp? > > Because: a) it's a standard that many perl editors understand, b) many perl > programmers understand, c) it's less arbitrary than any other standard (as > the > reasoning is quite meticulously backed up), d) it's a pretty good standard, > e) > if you don't pick a standard then the code will continue to be quite ugly, > and > this is one we have now without years of quibbling over where braces should > go, f) many people have access to the book and so can read the justifications > if they wish. > > There's probably more reasons I haven't thought of. > i know i just wrote a ranty reply to HDL's email before on this thread... :p but hey... Robin's above points are perfect -PBP is a standard, and AFAIK its the only meticulously reasoned Perl formatting standard there is if not -PBP, then what? Mason _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/
