Re: Code Style Fanaticism

2007-10-03 Thread Sonic Baker
Sorry to butt in but, If the bakery code is intelligently to recognise different styles then would it be much of a job to automatically reformat the submitted code rather than have the user do it? Couldn't it call the indent program via the command line? Just wondering cause I also prefer the "ne

Re: Code Style Fanaticism

2007-09-26 Thread Dérico Filho
Hi! I just read the Coding standards for Cake, I guess CakePHP take the words of the prophets K&R + tab. That's OK... It's been around for 30 or 40 years... I like it. BTW, Jeff, perhaps you should look also look on this matter as a "Convention over configuration" point of view... If you want

Re: Code Style Fanaticism

2007-09-25 Thread Brent Rieck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Man I guess I'm really not getting my point across. This will be my > last try, I promise :) Code formatting debates are religious debates, there's no point in having them and no matter what you say you'll never change anyone's opinion. Indent provides a way around

Re: Code Style Fanaticism

2007-09-25 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Brent, Thanks for the advice, I've been on *nix for what seems like forever, and I've known and used indent before. But I'm sure others will be able to use the advice as well. Man I guess I'm really not getting my point across. This will be my last try, I promise :) I mean the submission page

Re: Code Style Fanaticism

2007-09-24 Thread Brent Rieck
Jeff Brown wrote: > So , am I confused? Is there some dichotomy? Would my code have been > accepted with the "nesting-scope-obvious" opening bracket position? If you're on a unix-like machine look into the "indent" program, the code formatting problem was solved in 1976. If you're on window

Re: Code Style Fanaticism

2007-09-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Chris, On rereading my message, I think my use of 'code nazis' was too harsh. (Although I was trying to make light of it somewhat, And I did refer to myself as a code-nazi as well in one of my pre-submit versions of my note, but I seem to have cut that out... :) What I was trying to get across

Re: Code Style Fanaticism

2007-09-24 Thread John David Anderson (_psychic_)
On Sep 24, 2007, at 2:16 PM, Chris Hartjes wrote: > > On 9/24/07, Jeff Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> After a careful reading of the 'The Bakery Article Guidelines' >> http://bakery.cakephp.org/pages/guidelines >> And in particular the one paragraph on 'Coding Guidelines' with >> it's l

Re: Code Style Fanaticism

2007-09-24 Thread Chris Hartjes
On 9/24/07, Jeff Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After a careful reading of the 'The Bakery Article Guidelines' > http://bakery.cakephp.org/pages/guidelines > And in particular the one paragraph on 'Coding Guidelines' with it's link > to: > https://trac.cakephp.org/wiki/Developement/CodingSta

Re: Code Style Fanaticism

2007-09-24 Thread Joshua Benner
I cannot speak to the problems you had with getting your code posted, but the Cake standards are basically PEAR standards... which have been around for a long time, I think. I believe in a large coding community it is important to have these standards. One isn't necessarily right making anoth