On 4/19/2012 14:02, Roy Smith wrote:
In article<4f8ff38c$0$1381$4fafb...@reader1.news.tin.it>,
Kiuhnm<kiuhnm03.4t.yahoo.it> wrote:
I don't like when a community imposes style on a programmer. For
instance, many told me that I shouldn't use camelCase and I should
adhere to PEP8.
Well, that's not me. I write my code the way I like it and if that is
frowned upon by some "standardizing" community, so be it.
I want to retain my freedom of expression.
Freedom of expression is fine, until you have to work in a big group.
The more everybody uses the same style, the easier it is for everybody
to understand everybody else's code.
There's another nice thing about PEP-8, or at least about the concept of
an official global style. I've been in groups where a huge amount of
time has been wasted arguing about style. In my current gig, when it
came time to decide on a style, the conversation went something like one
person suggesting we just use PEP-8 and everybody else nodding in
agreement. In 2 minutes, we saved many person-months of arguing.
Nothing wrong with that.
Kiuhnm
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