On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Larry Hastings <la...@hastings.org> wrote:
> On 01/02/2012 12:47 AM, Raymond Hettinger wrote: > >> Really? Do we need to have a brace war? >> People have different preferences. >> The standard library includes some of both styles >> depending on what the maintainer thought was cleanest to their eyes in a >> given context. >> > > I'm with Raymond. Code should be readable, and code reviews are the best > way to achieve that--not endlessly specific formatting rules. > > Have there been bugs in CPython that the proposed new PEP 7 rule would > have prevented? The irony is that style guides exist to *avoid* debates like this. Yes, the choices are arbitrary. Yes, tastes differ. Yes, there are exceptions to the rules. But still, once a style rule has been set, the idea is to stop debating and just code. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
_______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
